Edisto Island Baptist Church

Edisto Island Baptist Church
Location 1644 South Carolina Highway 174, Edisto Island, South Carolina[1]
Coordinates 32°34′22.4″N 80°17′3″W / 32.572889°N 80.28417°W / 32.572889; -80.28417Coordinates: 32°34′22.4″N 80°17′3″W / 32.572889°N 80.28417°W / 32.572889; -80.28417
Area 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built 1818, 1865, 1880
MPS Edisto Island MRA (AD)
NRHP Reference # 82003839[2]
Added to NRHP April 01, 1982

Edisto Island Baptist Church is an historic African-American Baptist church located at Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. It was built in 1818, and is a two-story church that is sheathed in beaded weatherboard and has a medium pitched gable roof. An addition doubling the size of the church was completed about 1865, and a two-story pedimented portico was added in 1880.[3][4]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Contact Us". New First Missionary Baptist Church. Retrieved 2013-01-13.
  2. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  3. ↑ Fullerton, Martha Walker (January 5, 1982). "Edisto Island Baptist Church" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
  4. ↑ "Edisto Island Baptist Church, Charleston County (S.C. Hwy. 174, Edisto Island)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 10 June 2012.


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