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Bull Swamp Baptist Church Colored School Preservation and Community Center Project

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The Title for the Old Colored School's Project is: "3R's For the Bull Swamp Colored Schoolhouse: Restore, Repurpose, and Resurrect." One of the major objectives is to preserve an old school which was built nestled near Bull Swamp Creek on land purchased by former slaves. The land was purchased on May 3, 1867, two years after the end of slavery. The forested area of the property still provides wonderful aquatic and wildlife habitats. Early baptism was conducted in Bull Swamp Creek. The preservation efforts of 2024 have restored and enhanced the only remaining three classroom Rosenwald influenced structure in South Carolina as recorded by South Carolina Department of Archives and History. The school received funding under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) (Times & Democrat Newspaper, February 27, 1936). We are endeavoring to build on the vision of the Trustees of Bull Swamp Baptist Church, who were deeded the property from Orangeburg School District Five on January 23, 1959 for the expressed and documented purpose of developing a "Community Center" to serve the needs of citizens of rural Orangeburg and Calhoun Counties.

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