SC-40-5 Original Site of Winthrop College

Marker text: ORIGINAL SITE OF WINTHROP COLLEGE
In 1886, chiefly through the efforts of D. B. Johnson, first superintendent of Columbia public schools, Winthrop Training School, later Winthrop College, was started here in a small brick building which had been the chapel of Columbia Theological Seminary. In 1936 this building was moved to the campus of Winthrop College, Rock Hill, S. C.
Erected in 1938 by the Columbia Sesquicentennial Commission of 1936