Sometime after the Civil War, the first school building was erected in Graham's Turn Out. In 1895, J. Arthur Wiggins became head of the school and was assisted by Miss Blanche Walker and Mrs. Julia Day. The last graduating class at Grahams, by then called Old Town,or Sato, was the class of 1908. A brick school was constructed on North Palmetto Avenue in 1907 with E.H. Hall as superintendent.
Built in 1893, the red brick hotel, called Rice's Hotel, and later Denmark Hotel, served on the west side of town, across from the depot. It served passengers arriving on the Seaboard line. Denmark's first store was built by J.E. Steadman in the same year.
The first Baptist church of Denmark started in Bamberg in 1844 as the Cedar Springs Baptist Church, and relocated to Graham's Turnout in 1849, with the first building completed in 1852. The first sanctuary erected on the present propertyy was built in 1904.
The other older church congregations of Graham's Turn Out/Denmark, and the dates of their establishment are: Ghent's Branch Baptist, 1834; Denmark First Baptist, 1844; Rome Baptist, 1867; Franklin Methodist, 1874; Denmark Presbyterian, 1894; and Bethel Park Methodist, 1907.
Early physicians were Doctors Frederick, Tindal, Islar, Holman, Matthews, Wyman, Guess, Willis, Talbert, Boozer, Gillam, Varn, Glennan, Lowman, Thomas, Mole, Daniel, Livingston, Moskow, and Wait.
Voorhees NormalIndustrial School was begun in 1897 by Tuskegee graduate Elizabeth E. Wright. The brick 30-room Booker T. Washington Hospital, the gift of Ralph Voorhees of Clinton, NJ was completed in 1904. An adjacent administration building was the gift of Mrs. Voorhees and was completed in 1916. The old hospital, recently renovated, now houses the offices of the college president.
The main street in town was paved in 1924 and street lights were installed.
Source: Towns in Bamberg Co,SC