Skip to main content
Menu Close Menu

Historic Columbia

Donate
  • FAQs
Upcoming Events

Navigation

  • Tours
    • House Tours
      • Robert Mills House and Gardens
      • Hampton-Preston Mansion and Gardens
      • Mann-Simons Site
      • The Museum of the Reconstruction Era
      • Modjeska Monteith Simkins House
      • Hours and Pricing
    • Garden Tours
      • Garden Database
    • Offsite Tours
      • Walking Tours
    • African American History Tours
    • Online Tours
  • Education
    • Field Trips
      • House Tours
    • Traveling Trunk
    • Summer Camp
    • Adult Education
  • Preservation
    • Current Projects and Initiatives
      • Bull Street Campus 
      • Columbia's Green Book Sites
      • Veterans Administration Regional Office
      • Women’s Club of Columbia
    • Preservation Awards
    • Resources for the Public
      • For Property Owners
      • For Neighborhoods
      • Take Action!
    • LGBTQ Columbia
  • Support
    • Corporate Support
    • Donate
    • Membership
    • Volunteer
    • Partners and Donors
  • Rent a Venue
    • Gardens of the Hampton-Preston Mansion
    • Seibels House and Garden
    • Robert Mills Carriage House and Gardens
    • Gardens of the Woodrow Wilson Family Home
    • Weddings
    • Photoshoots
    • Recommended Vendors
    • Contact Us
  • About
    • Blog
    • Board Members
    • Careers
    • Contact Us
    • Gift Shop at Robert Mills
      • Online Store
    • Local History
      • Columbia Jewish Heritage Initiative
    • Newsletter
    • Staff Directory

Donate

2214 Barhamville Road

Site of Reverend Carroll House

The Reverend Richard Carroll lived and died at 2214 Barhamville Road, in a house no longer extant, and today the site of a modern apartment building.  Born into slavery in 1859 in Barnwell County, Richard Carroll studied theology at Benedict College in Columbia and Shaw University in North Carolina and became a Baptist minister. After serving as chaplain for the 10th U.S. Infantry during the Spanish-American War, Carroll returned to South Carolina and founded the Industrial Home for Boys and Girls, an institution located just outside of the city of Columbia on land once owned by Hamptons and established with the purpose of educating African American youth.

  • Reverend Carroll

    Rev. Richard Carroll. Image courtesy of University of South Carolina Digital Collections

  • Corrie J. Carroll

    Corrie J. Carroll, wife of Rev. Richard Carroll. Image courtesy of University of South Carolina Digital Collections

Carroll was politically very active, championing an agrarian philosophy which encouraged African Americans to avoid urban areas and maintain a rural lifestyle. Though near to the city’s boundaries, Carroll’s own home on Barhamville Road, during the early twentieth century, still consisted mostly of farmsteads and open land.  Carroll was remarkable for his unusual influence among white politicians, garnering the support of individuals such as South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman and U.S. ambassador William E. Gonzalez.  Criticized by some as too acquiescent to the inequalities existing between blacks and whites, Reverend Carroll was nonetheless a nationally prominent African American minister and speaker, and his funeral at First Calvary Baptist Church on Pine Street, on November 1, 1929, was the first police-escorted funeral held for any African American in the city of Columbia.(1)

(1) Richard Carroll Papers, 1908-1977, Manuscripts Collection at South Caroliniana Library, USC, http://library.sc.edu/socar/uscs/1998/carrol98.html (September 2014).

34.0231587, -81.0172159

Newsletter Signup

newsletter signup

Subscribe to our monthly newsletter for events, news, and updates from Historic Columbia!

  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Flickr
Historic Columbia

© 2023 Historic Columbia

Administrative Offices
1601 Richland Street
Columbia, SC 29201

Tours
All historic house and garden tours start at the Gift Shop at Robert Mills.
1616 Blanding Street
Columbia, SC 29201

Questions? Call (803) 252-7742.

Website by Cyberwoven