SC-40-1 Trinity Episcopal Church

Marker text: TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Parish organized 1812. Original Church dedicated 1814; Present church 1846. In the churchyard lie buried three Wade Hamptons; Thomas Cooper, Educator; Henry Timrod, Poet; W.C. Preston, U.S. Senator; Five Governors of S.C.: Three Mannings, Hampton and Thompson; Soldiers of the Revolutionary and later American Wars, including Colonel Peter Horry, Generals Ellison Capers, John S. Preston and States Rights Gist.

Erected The Columbia Sesquicentennial Commission of 1936.