Aiken County · Marker 02-04

Historic Church

U.S. Hwy. 278, at entrance to Redcliffe Plantation State Park, about 2 mi. below Beech Island

Front inscription

This church was built in 1836 by Beech Island Presbyterian Church, organized in 1827 with the Rev. Nathan H. Hoyt of Vermont as first pastor. His son-in-law, the Rev. Edward Axson, was ordained and served here. His daughter, Ellen, wife of Woodrow Wilson, was baptized here. In 1950 the building was consecrated as All Saints Episcopal Church.

County
Aiken
Region
Midlands
City or vicinity
Beech Island
Year approved
1967
Erected by
All Saints Episcopal Church
Coordinates
33.4233, -81.8619

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