Pon Pon Chapel Explained

Pon Pon Chapel
Coordinates:32.8083°N -80.4925°W
Built:1820
Added:January 5, 1972
Refnum:72001205

Pon Pon Chapel was built in 1820 in Jacksonboro, South Carolina. It was located "on Parker’s Ferry Road, the busy stagecoach thoroughfare that connected Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia."[1] [2] Today, Parker's Ferry Road is a barely paved road along the south side of a power line right of way, and the ruins of the chapel can be found along this road east of Jacksonboro Road (State Road S-15-40).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ruhf . Nancy R. . Pon Pon Chapel . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . December 10, 1971 . 24 June 2012.
  2. Web site: Pon Pon Chapel, Colleton County (Parker's Ferry Rd., Jacksonboro vicinity) . South Carolina Department of Archives and History . 15 April 2008 .