About SERCO

South East Rural Community Outreach (SERCO) is an organization whose mission is to create partnerships within the Lower Richland Community to provide charitable, religious, educational, and scientific programs to strengthen and expand the capacity of the community for a better quality of life for its residents.

SERCO plans to develop the Lower Richland Heritage Corridor in partnership with the Harriet Barber House, the Kensington Mansion and the Congaree National Park. The Heritage Corridor will enchance Richland County’s inventory of venues by offering a variety of events that will attract a diverse audience to the historical sites in the Lower Richland area.

If you are interested in finding more information about SERCO or the Lower Richland Heritage Corridor, please contact us here, or you can contact one of the advisory board members directly.

Latest News

Press Release / An Invitation:

Spend Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, 2013 in Hopkins –District 10

The 8th annual event begins with a Memorial  Day Commemoration at the St. John  Resurrection  Memorial Garden (also known as the Government  Cemetery), on Ault Road. The solemn ceremony will begin at 11:00 AM, with the SC Combat Veterans Group & Lower Richland Veterans Formation performing a special tribute. Special guests will include Major General (Retired) Nathaniel James, Founder/President of the 369^th Veterans Association, Inc., who lectures on the history of the 369^th Infantry Regiment, better known as the Harlem Hellfighters, and the Spann Watson Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., Columbia Chapter. This ceremony is being sponsored the J.P. Holley Funeral Home, the Lower Richland Veterans Formation and the SC Combat Veterans Group. Following at 12 Noon, there will be a procession to the historic Harriet Barber House, 116 Barberville Loop – off Lower Richland Boulevard, where the Heritage Celebration continues with a family-oriented day of fun until 4:00 P.M.  Major General James will bring greetings, and there will be FREE entertainment by the Simple Pleasures Band from Columbia and others, a kiddy carnival, hay rides, and food/other vendors. Also, the Mustard Museum is a unique new addition to this year’s celebration, sponsored by Sonya R. Hodges, Founder 371^st Historical Society, WWI. This event is sponsored by South East Rural Community Outreach (SERCO), with funding from the Richland County Hospitality Tax Fund, and admission is FREE. Richland County District 10 is served by the Honorable Councilman Kelvin Washington, Chair.  For further information, please contact SERCO at 803-695-7669 or sercoevents@gmail.com.

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Each year the Historic Columbia Foundation offers Awards of Excellence, which recognize groups and individuals whose work impacts the preservation of the “built” culture of our area and illuminates our history to residents of Columbia and Richland County. This year Historic Columbia Foundation presented the Celia Mann Award to the South East Rural Community Outreach Board. The Celia Mann Award is presented to a neighborhood or district that has researched and preserved, through a cohesive effort, structures and common areas in the region. The award was presented to Marie Barber Adams and the SERCO Board members at the annual meeting of the Historic Columbia Foundation, October 19, 2009 at the Seibels Gardens in Columbia.