City Directories and History: This appears to be an early Rosenwald School from the 1920’s.
A few miles north of Laurens is the small town of Ora known in earlier days as Scuffletown. In his 1826 publication, Statistics of South Carolina, Robert Mills refers to “scuffling” as a prominent form of recreation in that day. According to tradition, Scuffletown received its name because of the frequent scuffling which took place around the store and post office. In 1885 the railroad running from Laurens to Spartanburg passed through the community. Robert Tyler Macdonald, while surveying the area, asked the inhabitants for approval of a name other than Scuffletown for the new depot and the post office. The name he suggested was Ora, a portion of the name of Miss Lenora Hunter with whom he had fallen in love and would later marry. The name was accepted by the inhabitants, the railroad, and the federal government. Although the name Scuffletown no longer applied to the town it was retained as the name of the township.
(Information from: Names in South Carolina by C.H. Neuffer, Published by the S.C. Dept. of English, USC)
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