White on Watch during WWII

Lucille Hasell Culp Collection
cBeaufort County Library

Grace White, a self-described Marine Corps brat and the only woman in the George Washington School of Law graduating class of 1934, lived in the same house at 802 Carteret Street in downtown Beaufort from 1937 until her death just shy of becoming 100 years old in 2010. Her home was converted into a dormitory for women students at the Beaufort campus of USCB in 2012-2013.

As Beaufort's first woman attorney, she specialized in legal, monetary, and "heirs property" matters --  mostly because the other seven lawyers in town (all male) did not. During World War II she helped young men fill out the required selective service paperwork and watched for Axis incursions into the Beaufort River from the Pigeon Point Watchtower.

This image of a World War II watchtower is from our Lucille Hasell Culp Collection hosted by the Lowcountry Digital Library.