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20 and 22 Beaufain Street The Memminger School and the Memminger Auditorium
This site was part of the Glebe Lands, 17 acres given to the minister of the Church of England in Charles Town and his successors in office "forever by Affra Coming in 1698. The first parsonage of St. Philip's Episcopal Church was built here shortly thereafter. The Rev. Alexander Garden. rector of St. Philip's and Commissary of the Bishop of London, opened a school for black and Native American children on the Glebe Lands near the parsonage in 1744. Taught by two black youths under the rector's supervision, the school remained in operation for 22 years. The parsonage remained in use until…
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