Built around 1835 on Clermont Plantation in Cordesville Berkeley County South Carolina by the widow of John Ball Sr. named Martha Taveau. Miss Martha was from Edisto Island and “a strong Presbyterian in the midst of Episcopalians, she built a church at Clermont to make sure that the gospel might be preached in the country,” according to John B Irving ‘A Day on the Cooper River’ (1840). Not long after her death in 1847, those Episcopalians gave her church to the Methodists, where the gospel was preached by the local African-American congregation which lasted until the 1970’s. The church is Classical Revival and has a balcony which must have originially been used by the slave population on Clermont who likely built the small clapboard structure.
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