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The Huguenot Church, also called the French Huguenot Church or the French Protestant Church, is a Gothic Revival church located at 136 Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Built in 1844 and designed by architect Edward Brickell White , it is the oldest Gothic Revival church in South Carolina, and has been designated a National Historic ...
Dr Daniel DeSaussure Bacot (1828-1862), great-great grandson, married Rosa Taylor (1832-1925), was a graduate of Charleston Medical College in 1848, practiced at Piedmont and Orangeburg, South Carolina, and died in Pendleton, South Carolina. [18] Ada White Bacot (1832-1911), great-great-great-granddaughter, widowed Confederate nurse 1861-1863.
Charlesfort was established when a French expedition, organized by Huguenot leader Admiral Gaspard de Coligny and led by the Norman navigator Jean Ribault, landed at the site on the May River in May 1562, before moving north to Port Royal Sound. There, on present-day Parris Island, South Carolina, Ribault left twenty-eight men to build a ...
French Huguenot Church in Charleston, South Carolina. In the early years, many Huguenots also settled in the area of present-day Charleston, South Carolina. In 1685, Rev. Elie Prioleau from the town of Pons in France, was among the first to settle there. He became pastor of the first Huguenot church in North America in that city.
Also in the French Quarter are the Dock Street Theatre, arguably the first site of theatrical productions in the United States, and the French Huguenot Church, a beautiful Gothic Revival church which houses the sole-surviving French Calvinist Congregation in the United States. St.
Though Bessent was a longtime New York City resident, he currently calls Charleston, South Carolina home. ... Bessent is a member of the French Huguenot Church of Charleston, where his family were ...
Abbeville is a city and county seat of Abbeville County, in the U.S. state of South Carolina. [5] [6] It is located 86 miles (138 km) west of Columbia and 45 miles (72 km) south of Greenville. [7] Its population was 5,237 at the 2010 census. [4] Settled by French Huguenot settlers, it was named, along with the county, for the French town of the ...
Old St. Andrew's in West Ashley is the oldest surviving church building south of Virginia still used for regular services (1706). It is also the only remaining colonial cruciform church in South Carolina (expanded 1723–33). [8] Discrepancies in church building dates, whether in books, websites, or historical markers, are not uncommon.