Howard School Site
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Established after the Civil War, this public school for blacks was located at the NW corner of Hampton & Lincoln streets by 1869 and was partially supported by the Freedmen's Bureau. It is said the school was named for Oliver O. Howard, commissioner of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands during Reconstruction.
Moved here in 1924, Howard School was for many years the only public school for blacks in Columbia. Erected by the Howard School Community Club and the Arsenal Hill Concerned Citizens Club, 1988
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