Near Goose Creek in Berkeley County, South Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)
Casey (Caice)
Photographed by Cindy Bullard, March 29, 2010
1. Casey (Caice) Marker (front)
This African-American community grew up around a Methodist church founded during Reconstruction by a freedman named Casey or Caice. Its early services were under a tent, but a log cabin served as its first permanent church. In 1868 T.W. Lewis and other trustees bought a 25-acre tract between S.C. Hwys. 176 and 52. After a frame church replaced the cabin, Rev. William Evans (1822-1887) became the first permanent ordained minister at Casey Methodist Church.
Casey Methodist Church was destroyed by arson in 1977; the adjacent cemetery is all that remains. Casey School, a three-room frame school built next to the church in the 1930s, taught area children in grades 1-7 until it burned in 1966. The Goose Creek Branch of the Berkeley County Public Library was built on the site in 1991. The Casey Fellowship Hall, across Moncks Corner Road from the church, was also a vital institution in the Casey community for many years.
Erected 2006 by South Carolina Department of Archives and History; sponsored by the City of Goose Creek. (Marker Number 8-38.)
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: African Americans • Religion & Religious Structures • Settlements & Settlers. A significant historical year for this entry is 1868.
Location. 33° 1.193′
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Regionally, this marker is in the Lowcountry and in Santee Cooper Country. 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 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Early Indian Trading Paths / The Goose Creek Men (approx. 0.7 miles away); Mount Holly Station Mount Holly (approx. 0.8 miles away); Springfield Plantation (approx. one mile away); Eighteen Mile House Tavern (approx. 1.2 miles away); Button Hall (approx. 1.2 miles away); Medway Plantation (approx. 1.3 miles away); Thorogood Plantation / Mount Holly Plantation (approx. 1.4 miles away); Goose Creek / City of Goose Creek (approx. 1.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Goose Creek.
Photographed by Cindy Bullard, March 29, 2010
2. Casey (Caice) Marker (reverse)
Photographed by Cindy Bullard, March 29, 2010
3. Berkeley County Public Library
Photographed by Cindy Bullard, March 29, 2010
4. Methodist church cemetery
Credits. This page was last revised on May 30, 2026. It was originally submitted on April 4, 2010, by David Bullard of Seneca, South Carolina. This page has been viewed 2,491 times since then and 58 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on April 4, 2010, by David Bullard of Seneca, South Carolina. • Kevin W. was the editor who published this page.
