Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church
Erected about 1854 and originally a Congregational Church affiliated with Old Wappetaw Church, founded about 1699. Served as a Confederate hospital during the Civil War, then briefly housed the Laing School for freedmen during Reconstruction. Was accepted into Charleston Presbytery as a mission church and renamed Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church in 1870.
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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by The Congregation
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