Graduate student research paper discussing creation, operation, and extinction of a small, private college for women in Columbia, S.C. This institution operated under the following names: Presbyterian College for Women (1890-1913); the College for Women (1913-1915); and Chicora College for Women (1915-1930). Chicora College was founded as the Presbyterian Female Seminary in Greenville, S.C., in Sept.,1893. That school closed and was reorganized as Chicora College for Young Ladies in 1898. The college remained in Greenville until the fall of 1915. In 1890 the Presbyterian College for Women was founded in Columbia, SC. In 1910, the name of the school was changed to College for Women. When the school closed in 1915, the Presbyterian Church offered the property to the trustees of Chicora College. At that time, Chicora moved to Columbia, SC onto the property formerly occupied by the College for Women. The name became Chicora College for Women. In 1930, the Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina recommended that Chicora College be merged with Queens College. From 1930 to 1939, Queens College was known as Queens-Chicora College [and was later known as Queens University of Charlotte].
