Little River Baptist Church Explained

Little River Baptist Church
Location:3.8 miles north of Jenkinsville on South Carolina Highway 213, near Jenkinsville, South Carolina
Coordinates:34.3106°N -81.2753°W
Built:1845
Architecture:Greek Revival
Added:April 13, 1972
Refnum:72001208

Little River Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church located near Jenkinsville, Fairfield County, South Carolina. USA. It was built about 1845, and is a one-story, frame meeting house plan church. The church is a rectangular clapboard structure of Greek Revival design with Gothic Revival details in the front facade. The front gabled roof is supported by four octagonal columns on a raised platform. In the early 1950s, a wing was added to provide Sunday School rooms and kitchen facilities.[1]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hornsby . Ben F. . Little River Baptist Church . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . July 1, 1971 . 5 July 2012.
    - Web site: Little River Baptist Church, Fairfield County (S.C. Hwy. 213, Jenkinsville vicinity) . National Register Properties in South Carolina . South Carolina Department of Archives and History . 5 July 2012.