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A Brief History of Old Stone Church
A small group of Presbyterians applied to be taken under the care of the South Carolina Presbytery on 13 October 1789. The Hopewell congregation erected a simple log structure near the Seneca/Keowee River for worship in ca. 1791 and remained at that location for several years. A fire purportedly destroyed that structure. Work on a new building made of stone started in 1797 and was completed in 1802.
The Old Stone Church, along with the nearby visitor sites of Pendleton Village, Fort Hill Plantation and Oconee Station, reflect the area’s transition from frontier to antebellum South Carolina society. The church’s early membership constituted a significant percentage of the frontier elite who dominated Pendleton District (now Anderson, Oconee and Pickens counties).
Construction from 1797-1802 by John Rusk (whose descendants would be instrumental in the early years of Texas), the stone structure served the Hopewell Presbyterian congregation for a quarter of a century. Although the building effort commenced near the end of the frontier period (1784-1798) when the threat of Indian attacks was greatly diminished, it is probably that the substantial structure was designed with a defensive component in mind. In the mid-1820s, the congregation moved to Pendleton, which had developed into a gentrified village and was beginning its role in antebellum South Carolina social life.
The structure still plays an active role in the community. Weddings, funerals, patriotic gatherings, sporadic church services, meetings or lectures, family reunions, and other events mark the yearly calendar.
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