Black History Month Profile: Sarah Riley Hooks Cottage
The Sarah Riley Hooks Cottage, a "historically significant" one-story home along Bridge Street in Bluffton, was built around 1940 by Michael C. Riley.
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Updated: 10:14 AM EST Feb 15, 2021
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Black History Month Profile: Sarah Riley Hooks Cottage
The Sarah Riley Hooks Cottage, a "historically significant" one-story home along Bridge Street in Bluffton, was built around 1940 by Michael C. Riley.
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Updated: 10:14 AM EST Feb 15, 2021
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Theo Sarah Riley Hooks Cottage, a historically significant one story home along Bridge Street in Bluffton, was built around 1940 by Michael C. Reilly. He was a prominent black store owner, bluffed and resident, and the first black person to be appointed as a trustee to the Beaufort County Board of Education. Plus two schools in Bluffton were named in his honor. His daughter, Sarah Riley Hooks, was born on the cottage property back in 1922 where she lived her entire life. Hooks was one of the first home health care nurses in Bluffton, and her son, Tony Hooks, was the lead guitarist for the popular 19 sixties band Sly and the Family Stone. The Town of Bluffed and recently bought the 80 year old cottage in December and plans to stabilize, preserved and restored the property into a usable historic site.