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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT3R_gray-court-owings-consolidated-high-school_Gray-Court-SC.html
Created by consolidation of the following schools:Dials, New HarmonyFriendship, OwingsGary Court, Riddles Old FieldDedicated to our children1928 Kate V. Wofford, County Supt. of EducationC.B. Owings, R.L.Gray, T.H. BabbBoard of Trustees
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSWE_dials-methodist-church_Gray-Court-SC.html
[Front]:This is one of the oldest Methodist congregations in Laurens County. Its earliest records have been lost, but tradition holds that Martin Dial (1744-1843), a veteran of the Revolution, organized a "Methodist Society" about 1808. It met for…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKBC_francis-rapley-owings-house-owings_Gray-Court-SC.html
Francis Rapley Owings HouseOwings is named for Francis Rapley Owings (1840-1920), who lived in this house after the Civil War. His ancestor Richard Owings III had settled 2 mi. W in 1757. Francis R. Owings, a farmer and merchant, built the general…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF56_laurens-county-training-school_Gray-Court-SC.html
[Front]:The Laurens County Training School, located here 1924-1954, had its origins in Gray Court School, a one-room school founded ca. 1890 on the grounds of Pleasant View Baptist Church. The training school, opened in 1924 in a building construc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6ES_youngs-school_Gray-Court-SC.html
Here at Young's School in 1915, Dr. Wil Lou Gray (1883-1984) initiated for her native county of Laurens a seven-school program of night education for adults which led to the adoption of a state-wide system and her national recognition as a tireles…
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