Sunday, September 21, 2014

Report on Horn's Creek Church Preservation Project, September 2014


The project to preserve and protect the Historic Horn's Creek Baptist Church in Edgefield SC is well underway as of these photos of 19 Sept 2014.  To contribute to this ongoing project:

Make Check to Edgefield Historical Society with note line "Horn's Creek"

Mail to:
Miss Clarice Wise
1150  Augusta Road
Trenton, SC 29847


 The new caretaker's cottage is well underway and the burial ground is in very good shape.


 Church building is stablized with a roof in good repair.  The interior and exterior renovations will began after the caretaker's cottage project is complete.

View from the side of the Church toward the Cottage

Six foot tall chain link fence now protects the property
 
 Many of the monuments have been repaired and re-set.


Several other monuments, which had been toppled by vandals have now been set upright again.

Saturday, September 20, 2014

September 2014 Photos from the Bush River Quaker Cemetery, Newberry, SC

 New Burial:  Jean Worthington Herbert Smith


 Cemetery is in excellent condition

 Lydia Barrett Stone

 Monuments

Marker Sign