Wade Hampton; women’s residence hall dedicated to Wade Hampton III
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Hampton, Wade
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Wade Hampton; women’s residence hall dedicated to Wade Hampton III
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The original Wade Hampton residence hall was built in 1924 as the first women’s dormitory on campus. In 1940 the Board of Trustees named the building after college alumnus and trustee, Confederate general, governor, and South Carolina and U.S. senator Wade Hampton III (1818-1902). The building was demolished in 1958, and the current women’s dormitory was constructed on its location in 1959. It retained the name Wade Hampton. While a marker with information on the building's construction, name, and university officials is located on the exterior of the structure, there does not appear to be a memorial marker with biographical information on Hampton himself.
Wade Hampton III graduated from South Carolina College in 1836. He was one of the wealthiest slaveholding families in the South and the nation, enslaving nearly one thousand people. Hampton attained the rank of General in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Elected governor of South Carolina in 1876, Hampton served as the public face of the “Redeemers” who “saved” the state from “Negro rule” by ending Reconstruction. He was also the public face of the Red Shirts, a paramilitary group that used violence to suppress Black voters in 1876. Numerous monuments have been erected in his name to honor the Confederacy, the Lost Cause, and his leadership in overturning the political and social gains made during Reconstruction.
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A three-story residence hall with a stucco facade.
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University of South Carolina
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1924
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1940
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1958
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1959
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University of South Carolina
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