Cherry Hill School

CHERRY HILL SCHOOL

This one-room frame school, built ca. 1937, was the first separate school building constructed for African-American students on Hilton Head Island.  It replaced an earlier Cherry Hill School, which ahd held its classes in the parsonage of St. James Baptist Church.  After the black community on the island raised funds to buy this tract, Beaufort County agreed to build this school.

Submitted by

Bryan Arnold