Siloam School is a historic

school A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compuls ...

building located at Eastover,

Richland County, South Carolina Richland County is located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 416,147, making it the second-most populous county in South Carolina, behind only Greenville County. The county seat and largest city is ...

. It was built about 1936, and is a one-story, two-room building built with funds from the

Works Progress Administration The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, i ...

(WPA). It stands on a brick pier foundation and is clad in shiplap weatherboard siding. It operated as a school for African-American children until 1956. It was added to the

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in 1996.

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African-American history of South Carolina Works Progress Administration in South Carolina School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina School buildings completed in 1936 Buildings and structures in Richland County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Richland County, South Carolina {{RichlandCountySC-NRHP-stub