Thomas Heyward Academy - Rebel Yell Yearbook (Ridgeland, SC)

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LEFT GILLISONVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH. AT ONE TIME THIS ANCIENT ANTIBELLUM CHURCH WAS THE HEAD- QUARTERS FOR CIVIL WAR FEDERAL TROOPS. FOR THIS REASON IT WAS SAVED FROM SHERMAN'S DESTRUC- TION. THIS MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURE HAS WITHSTOOD ALL OF THE YEARS AND STILL STANDS ACROSS FROM THE FORMER GILLISONVILLE SQUARE, WHERE A COURTHOUSE ONCE STOOD. THE COLONIAL APPEAR- ANCE OF THE CHURCH IS THE SAME AS IT WAS WHEN FIRST CONSTRUCTED IN 1845. IT'S BEAUTY IS IEN- HANCED BY A QUARTET OF COLUMNS AND THE HUGE OAK DOORS WHICH LEAD INTO THE BUILDING. ON THE INSIDE ARE THE SAME FAMILY PEWS WHICH WERE PLACED IN IT ORIGINALLY. WTHE BALCONY WHICH SEATED THE SLAVES IS STILL IN PLACE AND STILL USED. - BOTTOM, JASPER COUNTY COURT HOUSE.

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ABOVE, THE EUHAW BAPTIST CHURCH ESTABLISHED IN 1745 BY CERTAIN PLANTERS OF THE EUHAW, OR IN- DIAN LANDS . AT ONE TIME THIS CHURCH SEATED 1000 SLAVES OWNED BY THE WEALTHY PLANTERS. IT LATER SERVED AS A SCHOOL AND A MEETING PLACE FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY. THE BUILDING PICTURED ABOVE IS NOT THE ORIGINAL, BUT WAS BUILT ONE YEAR -AFTER THE FIRST, CHURCH .WAS ,BURNED. NOW 230 YEARS OLD, THIS CHURCH IS STILL HOLDING SER- VICES, AND IS ATTENDED BY QUITE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE. RIGHT, THE PURRYSBURG MONUMENT, A MARKER OF STONE DEPICTING THE SITE OF OLD PURRYSBURG. IT STANDS UPON A LOW BLUFF OVERLOOKING THE SA- VANNAH RIVER NEAR HARDEEVILLE. IT WAS ERECTED IN THE 1940'S BY THE HUGUENST SOCIETY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. PURRYSBURG IS NAMED FOR COLONEL JEAN PIERRE PURRY, WHO PERSUADED THE BRITISH GOV- ERNMENT TO ESTABLISH A COLONY OF 600 SWISS IN CAROLINA.

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