Old Cokesbury and Masonic Female College and Conference School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
From the record
“The Masonic Female College and Cokesbury Conference School is a historic building in Cokesbury, South Carolina, that was the home of several different educational institutions in the century from 1854 to 1954. Together with the adjacent village of Old Cokesbury, it is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places as an historic district.”
Wikipedia article Masonic Female College and Cokesbury Conference School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 22 National Register listings published here for Greenwood County · listed in 1970 · category: District.
National Register reference number.70000589- 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
256 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 256 fires within 5 miles of Old Cokesbury and Masonic Female College and Conference School
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 632 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 9 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
153
Debris and open burning
50
Misuse of fire by a minor
13
Equipment and vehicle use
13
Smoking
10
Arson/incendiarism
9
Natural
3
Other causes
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Recreation and ceremony
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
4 workings within 5 miles of Old Cokesbury and Masonic Female College and Conference School: 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum, Kaolin. 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
Cokesbury, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail.
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.
DOT reported a tree blown down at Highway 246 and Townsend Rd near Hodges. Highway Patrol reported trees down on E Cambridge Ave, N Main St, and Bailey Circle in the city of Greenwood.
Numerous trees were blown down from the Hodges and Cokesbury area south to near Greenwood. The hardest hit areas were in the vicinity Clifton St, Pope St, Deadfall Rd, and Carlton St. Two trees fell on and damaged homes on Carlton St. Numerous power outages also occurred.
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
6 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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