Built in 1919. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
From the record
“The Tamassee Hope Village, formally known as Tamassee DAR School, is a school in Tamassee, South Carolina, founded in 1919 by the Daughters of the American Revolution to serve the underprivileged children of Appalachia. Historic buildings can be observed on the Tamassee Hope Village campus.”
Wikipedia article Tamassee Hope Village, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Oconee County · listed in 2012 · category: District · built in 1919.
National Register reference number.12000289- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
91 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Tamassee DAR School
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 299 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 8 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
35
Debris and open burning
31
Arson/incendiarism
8
Natural
7
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Recreation and ceremony
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Tamassee DAR School: 3 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 unknown, 1 plant.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Marble, Dimension, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Tamassee, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 tornado.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
County comms reported a tree blown down on a power line along Bethel Church Rd. Public reported (via Social Media) at least one additional tree down along with power lines in the Salem area.
A short tornado damage path was surveyed near the Falcon's Lair area north of Walhalla. Several trees were snapped or uprooted and one residence sustained minor damage.
Trees were blown down along highway 11 west of Salem. Another tree was blown down on Whitewater Point Rd. The public reported seeing funnel clouds in this area, but no evidence of a tornado was found.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
4 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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