October 27th The Old Mather School in Beaufort SC

This was a boarding school for young ladies of color back in my days in Beaufort-  The campus has been re purposed as the Technical College of the Low country. 

Shortly after the Civil War, Mather School was founded here by Rachel Crane Mather of Boston. In 1882 the Women's American Baptist Home Mission Society assumed support of the venture, operating it as a normal school for black girls. With some changes, the school continued until 1968, when it was closed and sold to the state for the educational benefit of all races.