It was built in 1938 to serve Ashwood Plantation, the first and largest of the Resettlement Administration (RA) project tracts in South Carolina.

The building served as the school and community gymnasium and as an auditorium for dramatic performances and films.

It is a one-story building with a simplified Colonial Revival style popular in the 1930s in government-sponsored construction.

[1] Media related to Ashwood School Gymnasium and Auditorium at Wikimedia Commons

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