Last updated: April 3, 2024
Place
Mather School Sales House
Mercer University
Quick Facts
Location:
Beaufort, South Carolina
Significance:
This is the site of the Mather School, a school for formerly enslaved people established during Reconstruction in 1868.
Designation:
The site is a part of the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network.
MANAGED BY:
Many students who lived on the Mather School campus needed a place where they could buy various goods to meet their needs. A store house was erected in the late 1800s for students to utilize and receive goods from. The Sales house provided most of the support to the Mather School. The sales house would receive clothing and food for the faculty to give to students. In the 1920s, a new sales house was opened on the Mather campus. Another sales house was built of scrap wood from razed buildings and was used to build a new sales house in 1939. Alumni remember going into the sales house often to either buy the local paper, buy some clothing, or even humor their sweet tooth by purchasing come candies.