On South Carolina Route 174 at Oak Island Road, on the left when traveling south on South Carolina Route 174.
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This wood frame church was built in 1818 as Edisto Island Baptist Church. The church was founded primarily through the efforts of Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend (1780-1847), a white woman who sought to revive Baptist worship on Edisto . . . — — Map (db m315624) HM
On South Carolina Route 174 at Oak Island Road, on the right when traveling north on South Carolina Route 174.
Founded the Wadmalaw and Edisto Female Mite Society, the first home and foreign mission society of Baptist women in the South. By 1811 the society gave $122.50 for work with Catawba Indians. In 1818 this building was erected with her funds. She gave . . . — — Map (db m315738) HM
