City Directories and History: Nothing remains of the once handsome Ridgeway Grammar School.
Click on the More Information > link to find additional data – A Fairfield County Sketchbook, by J.S. Bolick, 2000 (Courtesy of the FCHS)
“Among Ridgeway’s old homes which no longer remain is Ivy Hill, also a Davis home. It stood on the hill which the Ridgeway public school now occupies, and where a private school was operated more than a hundred years ago. Mrs. James Davis lived at Ivy Hill after the death of her distinguished husband, Dr. Davis, in Columbia. Here her bachelor son, Edward William Davis, conducted a boys’ school before the Confederate War. He prepared many local boys for college and for life with an especial grounding in grammar, English, Latin, and Greek; the curriculum also included science, mathematics and astronomy, as well as the rudiments of spelling, punctuation, and fine penmanship. Examples of the latter can be seen in many early local documents today.”
Information from: Names in South Carolina by C.H. Neuffer, Published by the S.C. Dept. of English, USC
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