Here’s a statue that can be found in a historic South Carolina location. Send your best guess of what it is as well as something about it. Send to feedback@statehousereport.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
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Our July 10, “Old church,” shows the Old Brick Church, also known as the Ebenezer Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, in Jenkinsville in Fairfield County.
Congratulations to those who identified the church, first built in 1788: Jacie Godfrey of Florence; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Charlie Davis of Aiken; Steve Willis of Lancaster; Bill Segars of Hartsville; Kevin Mertens of Greenville; Henry Eldridge of Tega Cay; Deborah Adams of Chesterfield; and Frank Bouknight of Summerville.
Graf shared: “This church was erected by the people of the Little River section of the county in 1788 from bricks molded by the members. They also cut the timber to provide the woodwork. It is small and rectangular, reflecting the sturdy, proud spirit of the Scotch Irish whose love for their religion was always uppermost. The interior is classic in simplicity with long straight-back wooden pews, a slave gallery and an old fashioned pulpit. A written apology from a Union soldier was inscribed on the wall of the sanctuary: ‘To the citizens of this county — Please excuse us for defacing your house of worship. It was absolutely necessary to effect a crossing over the creek. Signed, A Yankee.;”
Davis said the church, on the National Register of Historic Places, “is one of the few 18th-century churches surviving in the South Carolina midlands.” Willis grinned as he said, “This was a ‘gimme’ for us Almost Real Presbyterians!”
Segars added, “This meeting house stands today as one of the oldest Desenter, non-Anglican, buildings in its original state in existence in South Carolina. Regular services were held here until 1920. Since that time only regular annual commemorative services are held here. The Associate Reformed Presbyterian (ARP) Synod of Carolina was established here on May 9, 1803.”
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