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Big Stevens Creek Baptist Church (Hardy's)

Big Stevens Creek Baptist Church (Hardy's) is a South Carolina historical marker in Morgana vicinity, Edgefield County, dedicated 1962.

Edgefield County · dedicated 1962 · 1850 W. Martintown Rd. (S.C. Hwy. 230), Morgana vicinity

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Founded in 1762 by the Reverend Daniel Marshall, pioneer missionary and minister, this was the first church of the Baptist faith in the present Edgefield County./"Mother of Churches"

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by Edgefield Baptist Association on the Bicentennial of the church

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