HISTORY: BLUFFTON

•Heyward House - 70 Boundary Street

John J. Cole, the owner of Moreland Plantation, located in present-day Palmetto Blu , built this Contributing Resource as the family summer residence in 1841 and the house was expanded to more than double its size by 1860. It is one of a handful of antebellum residences to survive the “Burning of Blu ton” on June 4, 1863 when Union forces ransacked the Town during the United States Civil War. Following the war, surviving members of the Cole family moved to Texas and the house was sold in 1874 to Egbert and Kate DuBois, who were from Dutchess County, New York. In 1882, the house was sold again to George Cuthbert Heyward, Sr. and his wife, and it remained in the Heyward family until 1998 when it was purchased by the Blu ton Historical Preservation Society. Today, it is operated by the Historic Blu ton Foundation as a Museum and Welcome Center. Recently, it was awarded the Town of Blu ton’s first Historic Preservation Grant for exterior painting and repairs.

•Campbell Chapel A.M.E. Church - 23 Boundary Street

Constructed in 1853 as the Blu ton Methodist Episcopal Church, this vernacular Greek Revival style church building survived the Burning of Blu ton during the United States Civil War. In 1874, nine freedmen (Renty Fields, Jacob Chisolm, William Ferguson, Je rey Buncomb, William Smith, David Heyward, Christopher Bryan, Theodor Wilson, and William Lightburn) purchased the building for $500 and organized the Campbell Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, named in honor of Jabez Pitt Campbell (1815-1891), the eighth bishop of the AME Church. The bell, today housed in the cupola, was purchased around 1874. The congregation met here for worship until 2004 when they constructed a new church building next door. Campbell Chapel A.M.E. Church was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on April 29, 2019 for its association with the African American community in Blu ton during the Reconstruction Era (1861—1900). In 2022, a South Carolina Historical Marker honoring the history of the congregation was unveiled on Boundary Street in front of the church.