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Due West proudly boasts delicious food, wonderful education, engaging sporting events, and a close-knit community.
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Around 1789, Rev. Peter McMullan and families from the Ahoghil, Ireland congregation immigrated to South Carolina and built a church here - the Due West Corner Associate Reformed Presbyterian (ARP) Church. The church and town grew from these beginnings. The ARP Church established a school that became Erskine College in 1835, and in 1860, local citizens raised money to create the Due West Female College. The two merged in the 1920s.
These educational institutions gave the town a cultural heritage, and today's residents enjoy the arts: plays, concerts, lectures, athletic events, and other features of an academic community. |