Edisto Island Baptist Church

Edisto Island Baptist Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	1644 South Carolina Highway 174, Edisto Island, South Carolina[1]
Coordinates	32°34′22.4″N 80°17′3″W / 32.572889°N 80.28417°WCoordinates: 32°34′22.4″N 80°17′3″W / 32.572889°N 80.28417°W
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1818, 1865, 1880
MPS	Edisto Island MRA (AD)
NRHP Reference #	82003839[2]
Added to NRHP	April 01, 1982

Edisto Island Baptist Church is an historic African-American Baptist church located at Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. It was built in 1818, and is a two-story church that is sheathed in beaded weatherboard and has a medium pitched gable roof. An addition doubling the size of the church 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.^[2]

References

1. "Contact Us". New First Missionary Baptist Church. Retrieved 2013-01-13.
2. National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
3. Fullerton, Martha Walker (January 5, 1982). "Edisto Island Baptist Church" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
4. "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.