Barnwell Apartments: dormitory apartments dedicated to Florence O'Neill Barnwell
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Barnwell, Florence O'Neill
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Barnwell Apartments: dormitory apartments dedicated to Florence O'Neill Barnwell
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The apartments named for Florence Barnwell are on the site of the original home that Barnwell purchased in 1884 and operated as "Barnwell Hall," a boarding house for University of the South students. That structure was demolished during World War II, and the current array of surplus Army barracks was moved to the site in the late 1940s and called "Barnwell Apartments."
Barnwell was the daughter of James T. O'Neill, a Florida planter enslaving 30 persons. She married into the powerful South Carolina Barnwell family. Her father-in-law, William Barnwell, and her husband, Bower W. Barnwell, were enslavers and planters; the son served in the Confederate Army. He is buried in the University Cemetery, and his grave site is memorialized with a Confederate marker.
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A cluster of one-story wooden barracks structures.
Position: 971 (77 views)