Historic Markers Across South Carolina



Bethlehem Church I



Marker ID: SCHM 40-109
Location: 10000 Broad River Road, Columbia, SC
County: Richland
Coordinates: N 34° 6.588    W 081° 11.47
  34.1098    -81.19116666
Style: Free Standing **
 



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Bethlehem Church I



The organization date of this Lutheran church is unknown. In 1788, however, Bethlehem and fourteen other churches signed the articles of the "Corpus Evangelicum," an early church supervising body. By 1815, Bethlehem's first known building had been built about ca. 5 mi. N. of here. The church moved near Hollinshead Creek, it is said, in 1847, and by 1897 the congregation was located here.

Erected in 1988 by the Bethlehem's Bicentennial Committee.





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