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Furman's Legacy of Slavery: A Digital Exhibition: Founding a University--From Edgefield to High Hills of the Santee
After an unsteady beginning in Edgefield in 1826 and 1827, the school had relocated to the High Hills of the Santee near Stateburg, not far from the original Furman-family land grant." In 1829, Furman adopted a new name, Furman Theological Institution, and moved to the High Hills of the Santee, a plantation district between the Wateree and the Santee Rivers in present-day Sumter County.
A hitching ring taken May 4, 1930, from a stump of a tree that stood in front of the High Hills of Santee campus in Sumter County, SC, and was used during the Furman Theological Institution's residency there from 1829-1837. This ring was preserved by Dr. W. J. McGlothlin and found during the demolition of the 'President's home' on the old campus of Furman University, downtown Greenville, SC, by John L. Plyler, Jr.
