Sheldon Union Academy was founded in 1893. It was a school to teach rural black children living in Sheldon. It was opened after the American Civil War. It operated in the community for nearly 50 years until 1918.
At that time, the school board gave the property to Beaufort County. Since Sheldon Union Academy had been operating as a private school, it was converted to a public school, and a new school was built on the land.
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Sheldon Union Academy, later Sheldon School, opened in 1893 on this site and educated the black children of rural Sheldon community for almost fifty years. The original Sheldon Union Academy board, which founded and governed the school from 1893 to 1918, included S.T. Beaubien, M.W. Brown, P.R. Chisolm, H.L. Jones, S.W. Ladson, F.S. Mitchell, and N.D. Mitchell.
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Sheldon Union Academy, founded by an independent group of community leaders, was a private school until 1918. That year its board deeded the property to Beaufort County, which built a new public school on this site. Sheldon School, which taught grades 1-7, closed in 1942 when the county consolidated its rural black schools.
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32° 36’ 11.088” N, 80° 48’ 2.460” W701–737 Trask Pkwy, Seabrook, SC 29940, United States
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