St. James Baptist Church

St. James Baptist Church is a South Carolina historical marker in Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County, dedicated 2011.

Beaufort County · dedicated 2011 · 209 Dillon Rd., Hilton Head Island, Hilton Head Island

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This church, founded in 1886 by former members of First African Baptist Church, is one of the oldest surviving institutions remaining from the town of Mitchelville, a freedmen’s village established here by the United States Army in 1862. The present brick sanctuary, covered in stucco, is the third to serve this congregation. It was built in 1972 and renovated in 2005.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
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