The Cool Springs Primitive Baptist Church was organized in the 1830s, and by the 1840s, this wood-frame church was built. The church used this building until the 1950s when a brick church building was erected to replace the wooden building.
North of Greer, South Carolina, is the unexpected Our Lady of Vietnam Park, built by Catholic refugees from Vietnam. It features the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child and was dedicated on November 24, 1991, during the Feast of the Holy Martyrs. The event remembers the 117 Vietnamese martyrs who were persecuted for their Catholicism during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
According to Wikipedia, Buddhism and Catholicism are the largest organized religions in the country. Still, most people in Vietnam either follow an unorganized faith tradition, are classified as Vietnamese folk religion, or are atheists. There are approximately 7 million Catholics in Vietnam and 1 million Vietnamese Catholic expatriates.
Brutontown was founded in 1874 when Benjamin Bruton, a freedman, bought 1.75 acres in the northwest part of South Carolina. Over time, it became a Black settlement as more Black families moved around Bruton’s land.
The Bruton Temple Baptist Church was the first church for the community. It was built in 1921. The church is still active.
Brutontown is now a part of Greenville.
Reverend Thomas J. Earle was a minister and educator who settled in Gowensville, South Carolina. He founded the Gowensville Seminary, which educated students from around the area. Built in 1874, Earlsedale was made of bricks that were made on-site. Students would often board at the home while going to the school.
The Fountain Inn Principal’s House and Teacherage is a home and teacherage (a home for schoolteachers) located in Greenville County, South Carolina. It is last remaining building of an educational complex built for the Black children of Fountain Inn. The Rosenwald database does not mention how much the building cost. It opened in 1935 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
Springwood Cemetery, located in Greenville, South Carolina, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. It is an important cemetery because it reflects the history of the city within its walls. Several early Greenville citizens call Springwood their final resting place. It also contains several Victorian markers and reflects the rural cemetery style that became popular with Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts.
The first burial was in 1812. Springwood has been known as the Elford Cemetery, the Old Graveyard, and the Old Village Burial Ground. Springwood features a formal, planned design. The pathways and design of the cemetery were created by landscape architect, G. L. Norrman, a noted architect in the Southeast, who was inspired by the rural cemetery movement.
