Pinckney/Legare
Fully furnished apartments for continuing Honors students in a scenic setting on the historic Horseshoe.
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Legare College (1848)
Pinckney College (1837)
📜 Legare College (1848)
Legare College is named for Hugh Swinton Legare (1797-1843), an 1814 alumnus and former president of the Clariosophic Literary Society. A lawyer, Legare also served as a state representative, state attorney general, United States congressman, United States attorney general, charge d’affaires to Brussels and interim United States secretary of state.
The building's design included a meeting hall on the third floor for the Clariosophic Literary Society, one of the first two student organizations in Carolina history.
Legare was used as a Confederate hospital during the Civil War and, when the university was desegregated from 1873-1877 during Reconstruction, it became the primary residence hall for the predominantly African American student body. Among its residents was T. McCants Stewart, the first African American graduate of Carolina.
📜 Pinckney College (1837)
Pinckney College, like Elliott College, was designed solely as student housing and lacks the central academic portions of other Horseshoe buildings.
Pinckney is named for Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746-1825) and his cousin, Charles Pinckney (1757-1824). Charles C. Pinckney was a Revolutionary War general, legislator, diplomat and one of the first members of the college’s board of trustees. Charles Pinckney was a representative in the Continental Congress, a United States senator and representative, a state legislator and governor, and United States minister to Spain. Both men served as delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and signed the United States Constitution.
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