Mount Pleasant United Methodist Church

Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church was founded on July 16, 1867, with the Reverend Isaac Davis serving as the first pastor. The Board of Trustees of the oldest black congregation in Gainesville purchased the lot on which the present church ...

National Historic Landmark-Mount Pleasant Historic District

National Historic Landmark-Mount Pleasant Historic District

The town of Mount Pleasant was established in 1803 by Robert Carothers, an Irishman from Virginia, and Jesse Thomas, a Quaker from North Carolina.

It is important for the role it played in the antislavery ...

National Historic Landmark - Mount Pleasant

National Historic Landmark - Mount Pleasant

Completed in 1762, this is one of the finest examples of late Georgian domestic architecture in the Middle Colonies.

The structure contains a central hallway with flanking rooms rich in interior decorations. (Now within Fairmount ...

National Historic Landmark - Mount Pleasant

National Historic Landmark - Mount Pleasant

Completed in 1762, this is one of the finest examples of late Georgian domestic architecture in the Middle Colonies.

The structure contains a central hallway with flanking rooms rich in interior decorations. (Now within ...

Old Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

The congregation first met in a shed in 1919, and erected this stone church in 1920. This Romanesque style building now houses the Tabernacle of the Enlightened Church of God.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

Mount Pleasant African Methodist Episcopal Church

Organized in 1867, the first church building was a wood-frame structure constructed on a site purchased from Charles Brush. That building was replaced by a brick structure in 1887 which was destroyed by fire in 1903.

The present building, a ...

Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church

Erected about 1854 and originally a Congregational Church affiliated with Old Wappetaw Church, founded about 1699. Served as a Confederate hospital during the Civil War, then briefly housed the Laing School for freedmen during Reconstruction. Was accepted into Charleston Presbytery ...

Mount Pleasant Baptist Church / Lowther's Hill Cemetery

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Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, organized by 1785, first met in a nearby school. It built a sanctuary here in 1791; that year Cashaway Baptist Church merged with it. In 1818 the congregation moved about 2 mi. ...

Mount Pleasant Waterworks

Side A

In the early 20th century, Mount Pleasant’s leaders and citizens believed that the town’s rural locale and lack of a quality water supply hindered residential growth and prosperity. The situation changed when the Cooper River Bridge opened ...

Mount Pleasant Home for Destitute Children

Side A

At this site in 1881, Abby Munro, a Quaker from Philadelphia, established a home for orphans, neglected, and destitute children. Funds to purchase and operate the home were solicited locally and from friends in the North. It ...