Good Hope Baptist Church - Hodges, SC
N 34° 20.748 W 082° 13.200
17S E 387791 N 3801172
This church has a lot of history and even has a South Carolina Historic marker in front.
Waymark Code: WM4TEP
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 09/27/2008
Views: 12
This church, founded about 1870, has its origins in Walnut Grove Baptist Church, founded in 1820. Walnut Grove included both white and black members before the Civil War, but after the war black members asked for letters of dismissal to organize a new church. Good Hope was founded by David Agnew, Doc McIntosh, Henry Moon, Wesley Posey, and others, with Rev. W.L. Evans as its first pastor.
Good Hope Baptist Church grew to more than 250 members by 1900 under its first two ministers, Rev. W.L. Evans and H. Donaldson. The first church here was a frame building constructed soon after 1870; it was destroyed by arson in 1966. The present church, a brick building was constructed in 1967-68 during the pastorate of Rev. M.B. Norman.
Date Built: 01/01/1968
Age of Church building determined by?: Cornerstone or plaque
Service Times:
Sunday School: 9:30am
Worship: 10:30am
Wed. Eve.: 7:00pm
Website: [Web Link]
Church Address:
6516 Highway 25N
Hodges, SC USA
29653
|
Visit Instructions:
When visiting a waymark, please take a picture that clearly shows the church. If you have a picture with yourself and/or your GPSr at the church, that would be great too. Please tell us a little about your experience.