January 2019 – Page 2 – Explore South Carolina

This site was part of a historic sit-in that spurred the case Bouie v. City of Columbia. On March 14, 1960, two African American students from Allen University conducted a sit-in demonstration by sitting down at a booth at the lunch counter in an Eckerd’s drug store. This building was built between 1892-1895, originally the Canal Dime Savings Bank and then an Eckerd’s Drug Store (1936). It is a three-story, Romanesque Revival style brick building with a granite façade and red barrel tile roof

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St. Mary’s Catholic Church

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Carlisle-Wallace House

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Saluda Theatre

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Originally a bank, county records indicate it was built in 1920, but fire protection maps show the bank building existing in 1899

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Queen Street Grocery

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The Israel Mukashy Building was built in 1891 by James Cobb. It replaced the store and barroom of A.A. Clisby that burned in 1881. Israel Mukashy, a Jewish merchant who had emigrated from Russia in 1905, was a mobile merchant in 1908 that moved into this building in 1920. He retired in 1950

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Dorn’s Flour and Grist Mills

Originally built in Mt Tabor in 1883. In 1884 they decided to move the building to the current location. The church building was moved on logs to McCormick during 1884-6. In 1934 the church was turned to face Gold Street and then pink granite veneer was applied

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Baber-Rhyne Drug Store