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Address: 3087 Fishing Creek Church
Chester,SC 29706
Phone: (803) 789-3076
Come visit us in Chester, South Carolina
First church founded in the city of Chester in 1836. Please call the church or the Chester County library (803-377-8145) for detailed directions and more information.
Chester, SC Other AttractionsDowntown location, continental breakfast, and restaurants nearby. Outdoor pool;
Chester, SC BusinessesOffers living classroom and family farm tours which includes wagon rides and picnics, a petting zoo, a turn-of-the-century tractor engine-operated grist mill, a corn maze, cotton, watermelons and lots of pumpkins in season (generally late September to early November). Groups welcome!
Chester, SC FarmsFishdam Ford was the site of the battle on November 9, 1780, in which Gen. Thomas Sumter's men repelled a night assault by Maj. James Wemyss and the British 63rd Regiment. Gen. Sumter had camped at Fishdam Ford in order to draw off troops from Lord Charles Cornwallis'
Chester, SC Other AttractionsFounded in 1853 by the Rev. Leroy Featherstone. Call the church or the Chester County library (803-377-8145) for detailed directions and more information.
Chester, SC Other AttractionsBegun in 1866 as a brush arbor church, built of poles, tree branches and bushes by freed slaves. The first wooden structure ...
Burrel Hemphill, a slave in the household of Robert Hemphill during the Civil War, was reportedly tortured to death by Union ...
The church, like many in the South, was started after the Civil War as a brush arbor church. The annual religious and fellows...
"Rebuilt" in 1915, this was the childhood church of famed jazz artist Dizzy Gillespie....
Founded in 1774, cemetery....