📜 Rutledge College (1805)

The original campus building, Rutledge was named in 1848 for brothers John and Edward Rutledge. John Rutledge (1739-1800), served as governor of South Carolina, a Supreme Court justice, a state legislator and a United States congressman. His brother Edward Rutledge (1749-1800) also served as governor of South Carolina and as a state legislator, and was the youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence.

During the Civil War, Rutledge served as a Confederate hospital. The college was desegregated from 1873-1877, and Rutledge College hosted the State Normal School, which trained African-American teachers.