Near Andrews in Williamsburg County, South Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)

Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church

Photographed by Cindy Bullard, February 18, 2010

1. Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church Marker

Inscription.
This church was founded on land donated by Moses and Matilda Watson. It was the first African American church in the Bloomingvale community and was organized by trustees Orange Bruorton, Augusta Dicker, Sr., Fred Grant, Esau Green, Fortune Session, Moses Watson, and Richmond White. It was also mother church to Bruorton Chapel A.M.E. Church, active until the 1950s.

Mt. Zion also sponsored Mt. Zion School, which closed in 1958. The first sanctuary here, a wood frame church, was replaced in the early 1920s by a second wood frame church built by carpenter Rev. W.C. Ervin, Sr. The present church, the third serving Mt. Zion, was built 1948-1954 by carpenter Rev. W.C. Ervin, Jr. It was covered in brick veneer in the late 1950s.

Erected 2003 by South Carolina Department of Archives and History; sponsored by United Bruorton/Brewington Family Reunion and the Congregation of Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church. (Marker Number 45-14.)

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: African Americans • Education • Religion & Religious Structures. In addition, it is included in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1867.

Location. 33° 32.334′ N, 79° 35.819′

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W. Marker is near Andrews, South Carolina, in Williamsburg County. It is at the intersection of Thurgood Marshall Highway (State Highway 527) and Trillium Loop, on the right when traveling north on Thurgood Marshall Highway. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 8201 Thurgood Marshall Highway, Andrews SC 29510, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in South Carolina’s Pee Dee.

It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Deep South.

Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

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 11 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Chubby Checker Home (approx. 4 miles away); Early Settlers / Potatoe Ferry (approx. 4½ miles away); Williamsburg High School (approx. 5½ miles away); Georgetown County National Guard Memorial (approx. 6.2 miles away); Black Mingo Presbyterian Meeting House (approx. 10 miles away); Black Mingo – Willtown / Black Mingo Baptist Church (approx. 10.8 miles away); Black Mingo Creek: (approx. 11.1 miles away); Skirmish At Black Mingo Creek (approx. 11.1 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Andrews.

Another marker is no longer nearby. Dissenter Meeting House and Cemetery (was approx. 9½ miles away but has been confirmed missing).

Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church Marker Reverse image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Cindy Bullard, February 18, 2010

2. Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church Marker Reverse