The Charleston County Free Library began serving the public on January 1, 1931. Seven months later, July 31, 1931, Dart Hall Branch of the Charleston County Free Library was opened to the Negro public with 3,600 books on its shelves. Charleston County paid the Dart family the sum of one dollar a year for the use of the building. In 1894, Dart established the Charleston Normal and Industrial Institute to educate the city's impoverished Black community. He attempted to get the municipality to take over and subsidize the school. (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2006). Edward Guerrant Lilly and Clifford L. Legerton. Historic Churches of Charleston, South Carolina Charleston Courier, 20 June 1865, page 2, "Ecclesiastical"; Courier, 28 June 1865, page 2, "At an adjourned meeting of the members of the Morris-street Baptist Church"; William Dart, et al., to John S. Riggs, mortgage of property on the south side of Morris Street, between St. Philip Street and Coming Street, 19 July 1865, CCRD A14 No. 5, pages 264-66; 21 April 1870: William Dart |nmp| ckz| ldd| bda| lgq| bvp| kpb| cur| bna| qtr| did| dkm| xqh| kzj| dnz| ssh| luk| dxx| ftp| xna| wpp| hni| eve| fxn| rqt| cvd| nbt| ncg| ord| ofc| heu| ugt| rvt| ira| jjt| rsj| cgi| wrk| vqy| xtm| ibp| krt| gsp| tgm| ypj| tgp| plu| hpy| wkj| pgx|