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Emma Jane Wilson
Mayesville Industrial and Educational Institute was a school for African-American children in Mayesville, South Carolina. It was established and run by Emma Jane Wilson, an African American. Background Wilson was educated at Goodwill Parochial School in Mayesville and then Scotia Seminary in North Carolina. She taught at the Presbyterian Trinity Mission School in Mayesville which preceded Mayesville Institute. While at the school, she was Mary McLeod Bethune's first teacher, and later arranged for her to attend Scotia Seminary. Wilson was elected president of the annual Mayesville farmers conference around 1909. Mayesville Institute history After graduating from Scotia Seminary, Wilson founded the Mayesville Institute in 1882 to serve African-American children. The school first began operating in a ginhouse shed. It focused on teaching trade skills to young girls and boys, including shoe-making, carpentry, blacksmithing, sewing, and cooking. For the first 10 years, the school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayesville Institute
Mayesville is a town in Sumter County, South Carolina, Sumter County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 731 at the United States Census, 2010, 2010 census, this was a decline from 1,001 in 2000. It is included in the Sumter, South Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. History The town was named for the Mayes family of early settlers after the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad cut through the Mayes' property and began as Mayes Station in 1852, replacing an earlier name of Bradleyville, South Carolina. Fortunes made in cotton and tobacco created wealthy landowners in this area of South Carolina. Mayesville served the local area as a place to process and sell these products and to obtain supplies. Merchants such as I.W. Bradley, Witherspoon Cooper and Isaac Strauss opened some of the earliest businesses in town. The town suffered greatly during the Civil War but thrived again for several decades beginning in about 1880. The patriarch of the Mayes family, Matthew Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
