Damascus Methodist Church

Damascus Methodist Church is a South Carolina historical marker in Hartsville, Darlington County, dedicated 2001.

Darlington County · dedicated 2001 · E. Home Ave., (S.C. Sec. Rd. 16-10), just E of Hartsville, Hartsville

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The church organized as early as 1817 and known as "Wright's Meeting House, Black Creek" was the first Methodist congregation in the area. James D. Wright, an elder who was appointed "Exhorter" in 1826, preached here until his death in 1862. Damascus Methodist Church declined after 1893, when Wesley Methodist Church was founded in Hartsville; it disbanded by 1901.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by Darlington County Historical Commission

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