Edisto Island Baptist Church

Historic church in South Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Edisto Island Baptist Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


32°34′22.4″N 80°17′3″W / 32.572889°N 80.28417°W / 32.572889; -80.28417
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1818, 1865, 1880
MPS	Edisto Island MRA (AD)
NRHP reference No.	82003839^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 01, 1982

Edisto Island Baptist Church is a historic African-American Baptist church on Edisto Island in Charleston County, South Carolina. Built in 1818, it is a two-story church sheathed in beaded weatherboard with a medium pitched gable roof. An addition doubling its size was completed about 1865, and a two-story pedimented portico was added in 1880.^[3]^[4]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Contact Us". Archived 2013-11-27 at the Wayback Machine New First Missionary Baptist Church. Archived 2013-11-27 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2013-01-13.
^ Fullerton, Martha Walker (January 5, 1982). "Edisto Island Baptist Church" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
^ "Edisto Island Baptist Church, Charleston County (S.C. Hwy. 174, Edisto Island)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 10 June 2012.