8-42 Howe Hall Plantation/Howe Hall Elementary School
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Markerman62
N 32° 58.775 W 080° 01.685
17S E 590815 N 3649442
Located on Howe Hall Road east of Red Bank Road in front of the school, Goose Creek
Waymark Code: WM11XD1
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 01/04/2020
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Howe Hall Plantation
Howe Hall Plantation was established here by Robert Howe about 1683 and passed to his son Job Howe (d. 1706), Speaker of the Commons House of Assembly 1700-05. Later owned by such prominent lowcountry families as the Middletons and Smiths, it was owned by James Vidal before the Civil War. During Reconstruction Vidal sold parcels to African American societies and individual freedmen for small farms.
Howe Hall Elementary School
Howe Hall became an African American community made up of small family farms in the 1870s. It was nicknamed “Hog Hall” by locals who belittled the area’s lower status when compared to the old plantation. Howe Hall Elementary School, serving grades 1-8, consolidated several local black schools and was built here in 1954. Integrated in 1967, it has been Howe Hall AIMS (Arts Infused Magnet School) Elementary since 2002.
Erected by the City of Goose Creek 2007
Marker Name: Howe Hall Plantation/Howe Hall Elementary School
Marker Location: City
Type of Marker: Building
Marker number: 8-42
County: Berkeley
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