Batesburg-Leesville is a town located in Lexington and Saluda counties, South Carolina, United States. The town's population was 5,362 as of the 2010 census and an estimated 5,415 in 2019.
Historic Leesville Business District - Main Street
Hartley House (1830), located on U.S. Highway 1 across from the old Batesburg Graded School
Batesburg's Southern Railway Depot (1900) now located in the Wilson Street Park
Leesville United Methodist Church (1909) on U.S. Highway 1
Isaac Woodard
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Isaac Woodard Jr. was an American soldier and victim of racial violence. An African-American World War II veteran, on February 12, 1946, hours after being honorably discharged from the United States A
Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina
…Depot, and Rev. Frank Yarborough House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In February 1946 a black World War II veteran, Sergeant Isaac Woodard, was removed from a Greyhound bus in Batesburg after an argument with the driver. While still in uniform he was severely beaten by local police officers…
Woodard after being blinded, 1946
Woodard in The Afro-American, June 10, 1950