The Lawton House Founding Fund

Our mission: to document, restore, and maintain the Lawton House, and to provide the community with an educational and historical museum that preserves the history of the Lawton family and the Treadwell St. community.  The home has significance because it is one of the 40 homes located in the Treadwell Street Historic District, which was listed in the National Register September 20, 1985. The district provides significant information about the history of the African American community in Orangeburg in the early twentieth century. According to residents, this neighborhood was one of the most well-to-do African American neighborhoods in the city.