Friendship Methodist Church
(Front text)
This church, one of the oldest Methodist organizations in Berkeley County, was formally
organized about 1825. Circuit riders had preached in the area for more than forty years, and services held under a
brush arbor here inspired participants to form a congregation and build their first church, a pole building.
(Reverse text)
By 1843 the church built a large frame sanctuary, later remodeled in 1914-16. During
Reconstruction its black members left to form their own congregations, among them Jerusalem Methodist Church.
The present brick sanctuary, its construction delayed by the Santee Cooper project, was built in 1938 and dedicated
in 1939.
Marker is on Ranger Drive (South Carolina Route 6), on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
