White Rock in Richland County, South Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)

Bethel Lutheran Church

Photographed by Nancy Stone-Collum, September 2018

1. Bethel Lutheran Church Marker

Inscription. This church, organized in 1762 by German colonists, is one of the first Lutheran congregations in the Dutch Fork region. Incorporated in 1788 as “the German Lutheran Church of Bethel on High Hill Creek,” it first met in a log church 3.5 mi. S, near the juncture of that creek and the Saluda River. It built later churches ca. 1800, in 1843, and in 1881 further up High Hill Creek. An original member of the South Carolina Lutheran Synod when the synod was organized in 1824, Bethel was forced to move when Lake Murray was constructed. In 1929 it merged with Mt. Vernon Lutheran Church, organized in 1893 at White Rock, to form a “new” Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church. This Gothic Revival church, designed by J.B. Urquhart of Columbia, was dedicated in 1930.

Erected 2012 by Bethel Lutheran Congregation. (Marker Number 40-177.)

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Religion & Religious Structures.

Location. 34° 8.663′ N, 81° 16.44′ W. Marker is in White Rock, South Carolina, in Richland County. It is on 2081 Dutch Fork Road, on

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the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: White Rock SC 29177, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the Midlands

and in the Greater Columbia Area.

It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Deep South.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 7 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Site of Mount Vernon Lutheran Church (approx. 0.2 miles away); Spring Hill (approx. 2.1 miles away); Bethlehem Church (approx. 4.6 miles away); Pine Grove A.M.E. Church (approx. 5.3 miles away); St. Michael Lutheran Church (approx. 5.3 miles away); a different marker also named Bethlehem Church (approx. 5.3 miles away); Richlex School Site (approx. 5.7 miles away); World War II Bombing Ranges (approx. 6.4 miles away).

Photographed by Nancy Stone-Collum, September 2018

2. Bethel Lutheran Church Marker

Photographed by Nancy Stone-Collum, September 2018

3. Bethel Lutheran Church Marker

Bethel Lutheran Church image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Nancy Stone-Collum, September 2018

4. Bethel Lutheran Church

Credits. This page was last revised on September 28, 2018. It was originally submitted on September 19, 2018. This page has been viewed 679 times since then and 88 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on September 28, 2018. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.