Mount Prospect Baptist Church

Mount Prospect Baptist Church is a South Carolina historical marker in Rock Hill, York County, dedicated 2014.

York County · dedicated 2014 · 339 W. Black St., Rock Hill, Rock Hill

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Front: This church, founded in 1883, first held services in private homes in Rock Hill. Formally organized as First Baptist Church, Colored, in 1885, it was later renamed Mt. Prospect Baptist Church. Its first pastor, Rev. Thomas S. Gilmore (1855-1938), served here 55 years, until his death in 1938. The first permanent church, a frame building, burned and was replaced by a second frame church about 1900. Reverse: In 1891 Mount Prospect hosted the first classes of Friendship College, founded by Rev. M.P. Hall to offer an education to Rock Hill blacks before there was a public school for them. The school held classes here until 1910. The second church burned in 1914, and this brick church, with Romanesque Revival elements, was built in 1915. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by African-American Cultural Resources Commitee of Rock Hill

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