This building could be a church, but this is similar schoolhouse design frequently seen throughout North Carolina.
Schoolhouse-Beaufort County, North Carolina
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Gerrard Chapel Primitive Baptist Church-Blounts Creek, North Carolina
Originally known as Baptist Church of Christ on Blounts Creek, this congregation started on May 28, 1808. The church has not been in use since the 1980s.
Ware Creek Missionary Baptist Church-Blounts Creek, North Carolina
My assumption is that this church started out as your traditional center gable and tower seen in many rural areas. Later the church wrapped it in brick and added mid-century modern stained glass windows.
United States Colored Troops
There are many articles who do a much better job explaining the importance of the United States Colored Infantry and who made up the troops. The troops were made up freed men from the North and South. For Southern ones, many volunteered to fight after a Southern city was under control of Union troops. They played an important role in defeating the Confederacy.
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Drayton Cemetery, Hilton Head Island
Talbird Cemetery, Hilton Head Island
San Sebastian Cemetery, Saint Augustine
First African Baptist Church-Beaufort, South Carolina
The congregation started in 1863 as a praise house called “Baptist Church Colored.” The Gothic Revival church was constructed in 1865 by local freedmen. It is a contributing property to the Beaufort Historic District.
Tabernacle Baptist Church-Beaufort, South Carolina
Tabernacle Baptist Church was built by Beaufort Baptist Church as a meeting house in the 1840s. In 1863, the church was utilized by Reverend Solomon Peck, who brought 500 Black parishioners to start Tabernacle Baptist Church. The church purchased the land from Beaufort Baptist Church in 1867.
The Gothic Revival church was rebuilt in 1893 after a hurricane destroyed it.
It was the church of Robert Smalls. He is buried in the small graveyard.