SE of Spartanburg on SC 56, Spartanburg, South Carolina. County/parish: Spartanburg.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 06, 1977. NRIS 77001232.
1 contributing building. 2 contributing structures.
The South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind is a school in unincorporated Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States, near Spartanburg and with a Spartanburg postal address. It was founded in 1849 by the Reverend Newton Pinckney Walker as a private school for students who were deaf. The School for the Blind was established in 1855, and the school became state funded in 1856.
Previously students were under de jure educational segregation in the United States with black students separate. In 1967 the school racially integrated.
The School for the Multihandicapped was established in 1977, and the school began providing outreach services in the mid-1980s.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/118998598