Newberry County · Marker 36-07
St. John's Church
Hope Station Rd. (S.C. Sec. Rd. 36-170), .5 mile N of its intersection with Columbia Hwy. (U.S. Hwy. 176), between Pomaria and Peak
Front inscription
This Lutheran church stands on a royal grant of 100 acres made in 1763 to John Adam Epting and Peter Dickert, elders of the Dissenting congregation on Crim's Creek. The origins of St. John's date as early as 1754, when the Reverend John Gasser settled near here. The church was incorporated in 1794 as "the German Lutheran Congregation of St. John."