First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church is a South Carolina historical marker in Columbia, Richland County, dedicated 1938.

Richland County · dedicated 1938 · 1306 Hampton St., Columbia, Columbia

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Congregation organized 1809. Original church, built 1811 on Sumter Street corner, was burned Feb. 17, 1865 by Union troops who mistook it for the present church, built 1859, where the Secession Convention had met Dec. 17, 1860. Because of reported smallpox in Columbia, the convention adjourned to Charleston.

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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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First Baptist Church50 ft

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