Voorhees College
[Front Text]
Voorhees College, founded by Elizabeth Evelyn Wright
in 1897 as the Denmark Industrial School, was an
effort to emphasize a vocational curriculum for
rural African American students on the model of
the Tuskegee Institute. The school, with funding
from philanthropist Ralph Voorhees, was renamed
Voorhees Industrial School for Colored Youth in 1904,
Voorhees Normal and Industrial in 1916, and
Voorhees School and Junior College in 1947.
[Reverse Text]
Voorhees, supported by the Episcopal Church since
1924, changed its mission during the first half of
the twentieth century and in 1962 became Voorhees
College. In 1967 it became a senior liberal arts
college. The historic portion of the campus was
listed in the National Register of Historic Places
in 1982 as Voorhees College Historic District.
Marker is on East Voorhees Road (South Carolina Route S-5-12) near Soloman Blatt Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
