Richland County · Marker 40-22

First Presbyterian Church

1324 Marion St., at the corner of Marion & Lady Sts., Columbia

Front inscription

First congregation organized in Columbia (1795). The churchyard, allotted as a public burying ground in 1798, was granted to this church 1813. Here are buried: D. E. Dunlap, first pastor; Chancellor H. W. DeSaussure; Jonathan Maxcy, first President of S. C. College; Ann Pamela Cuningham, founder of Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association; U. S. Senators F. H. Elmore and Wm. F. DeSaussure, and the parents of Woodrow Wilson.

County
Richland
Region
Midlands
City or vicinity
Columbia
Year approved
1938
Erected by
Columbia Sesquicentennial Commission of 1936
Coordinates
34.00395, -81.031033

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