Snow Hill Baptist Church

Front inscription

Snow Hill Baptist Church organized in the 1880s. Tradition holds the church initially worshipped under a brush arbor on land owned by farmer London Nettles. In 1888 church trustees acquired this one-acre site from Johanna Hoffmeyer and built their first house of worship. Upon organizing, the Snow Hill congregation joined the Pee Dee Baptist Association. In its first few years it had as many as one hundred members.

Reverse inscription

Snow Hill Baptist Church served Black residents of Ebenezer Township and other nearby sections of Florence County. In 1908 church leaders organized a Colored Cemetery Association and acquired land one-mile south for a graveyard. Adjacent to the church’s east is the hall building for Snow Hill Masonic Lodge 387. The current church building was constructed around 1950, replacing the original. It was later expanded.