Plaque pictured on the right represents a new way of understanding the legacy of slavery that Cherrydale house carries on our campus. The plaque, which presents recovered enslaved names is placed at the front of the structure. It reads as follows:

"CHERRYDALE

for over 150 years, this structure was located on the current site of the Cherrydale Point shopping center. From 1857 through the end of the Civil War, the home was the center of an 867.5-acre plantation owned by Furman University's first president, James C. Furman. Abraham, Clark Joanna, Jethro, Mary, Pharis, Primus, Richard, Sylvia, and Toney were some of the approximately 50 enslaved people who were compelled to live and work at Cherrydale. After the war, the Furmans remained here, and some of the family's former enslaved laborers, including Abraham Sims, continued to work for them.

President Furman died in the home in 1891 and it was passed to his wife and eventually their children. In 1939, Eugene E. Stone III, founder of Stone Manufacturing, purchased the home. The Stone family and Cherrydale Point developer AIG Baker gifted it to Furman University, and in 1999, over the course of two days, the home was transported to this site."