Little River Baptist Church

Little River Baptist Church
Location 3.8 miles north of Jenkinsville on South Carolina Highway 213, near Jenkinsville, South Carolina
Coordinates 34°18′38″N 81°16′31″W / 34.31056°N 81.27528°W / 34.31056; -81.27528Coordinates: 34°18′38″N 81°16′31″W / 34.31056°N 81.27528°W / 34.31056; -81.27528
Area 3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built 1845
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP Reference # 72001208[1]
Added to NRHP April 13, 1972

Little River Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located near Jenkinsville, Fairfield County, South Carolina. It was built about 1845, and is a one-story, frame meeting house plan church. The church is a rectangular clapboard structure of Greek Revival design with Gothic Revival details in the front facade. The front gabled roof is supported by four octagonal columns on a raised platform. In the early 1950s a wing was added to provide Sunday School rooms and kitchen facilities.[2][3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Hornsby, Ben F. (July 1, 1971). "Little River Baptist Church" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
  3. "Little River Baptist Church, Fairfield County (S.C. Hwy. 213, Jenkinsville vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 5 July 2012.


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