502 A SKETCH OF EDUCATION IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 



The location of the college is all that could be desired — within four 

 miles of a mountain range, its water and air are pure and bracing. The 

 surrounding population is generally of the moral, energetic, industrious 

 class, which is the hope of true progress and prosperity. 



In the town of Walhalla there are four churches of whites, viz : Bap- 

 tist, Methodist, Lutheran and Presbyterian, with an aggregate member- 

 ship of between five and six hundred, supplied by able ministers. 



Walhalla is the terminus of the Blue Ridge railroad, eight miles 

 above its crossing of the Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Railway, and 

 easily accessible from all sections of the countiy, but advantageously 

 removed from the bustle and confusion of larger railroad towns. 



Students obtain good board and lodging at nine dollars per month, 

 owing to the fact that the cereals are produced in this neighborhood 

 more abundantly than any other crop. The tuition is forty dollars per 

 scholastic year, and, as might be expected, from the financial statement 

 in regard to the population, there is no extravagance among us. Our 

 college, our town, and our country are all free from debt. We have in 

 the county about four whites to one colored inhabitant. The average 

 attendance of pupils in the collegiate and sub-collegiate clas.ses of the 

 college during the five years of its tentative exisitence has been eighty. 

 Xow, that it has been put upon a permanent basis, and its success no 

 longer doubtful, with all the advantages of accessibility and of religious, 

 moral and industrious surroundings, and econoni}' in tuition, board and 

 dress, with a population yearning for learning and liberal in its support, 

 we confidently expect to find this infant, alread}' strong in its preparation 

 for good, substantial, literary work, soon in the foremost rank of educa- 

 tional institutions. 



INSTITUTIONS FOR SPECIAL INSTRUCTION. 



THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (pRESBYFEKIAN), COLUMBIA, S. C. 



In 1828, Hopewell Presbytery, in Georgia, took the first steps in the 

 establishment of a theological seminary. A theological school was opened 

 in that year, in Lexington, Georgia, under the charge of Rev. Thomas 

 Goulding, D. D. South Carolina Presbytery agitated the matter with 

 such success that., in 1830, the seminary was removed to Columbia, a 

 commodious private residence with ample grounds having been purchased 

 for the purpose. Dr. Goulding was assisted by the Rev. George Howe. 

 The Synod of South Carolina and Georgia assumed general supervision. 

 After this the seminary prospered, other professors were added, and two 



