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By Tom Bosse, October 26, 2026
Edisto Island Baptist Church Marker (Back)
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1 ► South Carolina, Colleton County, Edisto Island — 10 145 — Edisto Island Baptist Church —  |
| (Front) 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 | |||
| 2 ► South Carolina, Colleton County, Edisto Island — Hephzibah J. Townsend — 1780 - 1847 — |
| 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 | |||