Allendale County
20 places on the trail: 20 highway markers.
Era of American Revolution (1764-1783)
South Carolina in the Early Republic (1784-1815)
- 03-09Old St. Nicholas CemeteryThe original cemetery associated with St. Nicholas Lutheran Church is 1/3 mi. S off S.C. Hwy. 641. The church, originall...
- 03-06St. Nicholas ChurchLutheran church, org. by 1804, has occupied several sites. Today's structure, built in 1910, incorporates material from ...
- 03-05Town of AllendaleIn 1810, pursuant to an Act of the South Carolina General Assembly, the state conveyed a 1000-acre landgrant signed by G...
Antebellum (1816-1860)
- 03-03Antioch Christian ChurchOrganized in 1833 by Dr. and Mrs. W.R. Erwin and Mrs. U.M. Robert, this was the second Christian Church (Disciples of Ch...
- 03-02Beech Branch Baptist ChurchConstituted September 12, 1759 as Coosawhatchie Church, this church became in 1822 Beech Branch Baptist Church. The pres...
- 03-10Bethel Baptist ChurchThis church was organized in 1851 by Revs. Lewis Parker and John Hoover, with twelve charter members and Rev. Hoover as ...
- 03-04Bethlehem ChurchThis Baptist Church, organized by 1854, built its first house of worship near here on land purchased in 1859 from A. R. ...
- 03-16Gilette Methodist ChurchGillette Methodist Church dates to the early 19th C., possibly around the time that Rev. James Capers settled on land ow...
- 03-08Harmony Baptist ChurchThis church had its origins in a brush arbor as early as 1830 but was formally organized in 1878 with Rev. H.C. Smart as...
- 03-07Old AllendaleOriginal site of Allendale, named for its first postmaster, Paul Allen, in 1849. Sherman's troops under Gen. Kilpatrick ...
- 03-01Smyrna Baptist ChurchOrganized in 1827 as Kirkland Church, the name was changed in 1836 to Smyrna Baptist Church. Title to the site was conve...
- 03-18Swallow Savannah CemeteryThis cemetery was est. by Swallow Savannah Methodist Church, which formed c.1815 at a log house 1 mi. S. The church was ...
- 03-17Swallow Savannah Methodist ChurchThis church first organized c.1815, when members met in a log house 2 mi. S that was adjacent to a sheet of water known ...
Civil War (1861-1865)
Reconstruction (1866-1876)
New South (1877-1913)
- 03-20Doe Pond Baptist ChurchTradition holds that Doe Pond Baptist Church was organized by formerly enslaved people in the years after the Civil War....
- 03-11FairfaxFairfax, chartered in 1893 and incorporated in 1896, grew out of an early community centered around Owens’ Crossroads, w...
- 03-13Speedwell Methodist ChurchThis church, founded in 1885, was named Speedwell for a stagecoach stop and the first post office in the vicinity, now M...