York County · Marker 46-49

Unity Presbyterian Church

303 Tom Hall St., Fort Mill

Front inscription

This church, founded in 1788, predates the present town of Fort Mill and has occupied four sites in the vicinity. The first church, a log building, stood about 2 mi. NE in a community known as “Little York.” It burned in 1804. A log church was built 5 blocks N, where the first church cemetery was laid out. That church burned in 1838, and the congregation moved to a site just E of the current location.

Reverse inscription

The second church cemetery, laid out nearby, became a municipal cemetery in the 1920s. The third sanctuary, a frame building, burned in 1880. A Romanesque Revival church built here in 1881, featuring a central bell tower, was constructed with bricks made from local clay. It and the historic cemeteries nearby were listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. A new sanctuary was built here in 2010.

County
York
Region
Midlands
City or vicinity
Fort Mill
Year approved
2010
Erected by
The Congregation
Coordinates
35.007333, -80.9384

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