Trinity Episcopal Church

Trinity Episcopal Church is a South Carolina historical marker in Columbia, Richland County, dedicated 1938.

Richland County · dedicated 1938 · 1100 Sumter St., across from the South Carolina State House, Columbia, Columbia

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Parish organized 1812. Original church dedicated 1814; present church dedicated 1846. In the churchyard lie buried the three Wade Hamptons; Thomas Cooper, educator; Henry Timrod, poet; W. C. Preston, U. S. senator; five governors of S. C.: three Mannings, Hampton, and Thompson; soldiers of the Revolutionary and later American wars, including Colonel Peter Horry, Generals Ellison Capers, John S. Preston, and States Rights Gist.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by Columbia Sesquicentennial Commission of 1936

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On the National Register nearby

Trinity Episcopal Church180 ft
Wade Hampton State Office Building210 ft

Places within about 300 feet of this marker that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A nearby listing is not always the marker's own subject.