Seaside School, also known as Seaside Colored School, is a historic

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building for African-American children located at

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. It was built about 1931, and is a one-story, two-room, rectangular frame building. It sits on a low brick pier foundation and has weatherboard exterior siding. The school has been vacant since 1954, except for brief periods of residential tenant occupancy. It is one of only three remaining historic schools on Edisto Island. It was listed on the

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in 1994.

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