First Presbyterian Church

 

First congregation organized in Columbia (1795). The churchyard, allotted as a public burying ground in 1798, was granted to this church 1813. Here are buried: D.E. Dunlap, first pastor; Chancellor H.W. DeSaussure; Jonathan Maxcy, first President of S.C. College; Ann Pamela Cuningham, founder of Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association; U.S. Senators F.H. Elmore and Wm. F. DeSaussure, and the parents of Woodrow Wilson.

Marker is on Marion Street north of Lady Street, on the right when traveling north.

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