Trinity Lutheran Church
(Front text)
Trinity Lutheran Church was founded
in 1849 by German-Swiss Lutherans
who came to Orangeburg District
from Charleston. The first church
building, was built 2 mi. S on the old
Moncks Corner Rd., now S.C. Hwy. 6.
By 1800 the center of the community
shifted, and the Lutherans and
Methodists traded churches. The
Lutherans moved to a frame church
2 mi. N, establishing their cemetery
there.
(Reverse text)
Elloree was incorporated in 1886, and
the Lutherans built a frame church on
this site in 1889. It was struck by
lightning and burned in 1913. The
present blue granite church, a Late
Gothic Revival design by J. Carroll
Johnson (1882-1967) of the Columbia
firm Urquhart & Johnson, was built in
1914 and dedicated on Palm Sunday
1915. It is listed in the National
Register of Historic Places in 2008.
Marker is at the intersection of East Hampton Street and North Lexington Street, on the left when traveling east on East Hampton Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
