GOOD HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH
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N 34° 20.697 W 082° 13.223
17S E 387754 N 3801078
This history of Good Hope Baptist Church.
Waymark Code: WM4TEN
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 09/27/2008
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member Mvillian
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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.
Marker Name: GOOD HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH

Marker Location: Roadside

Type of Marker: Building

Marker number: 24-17

County: Greenwood

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