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High Hills' Baptist
Church
NEAR STATEBURG
About two miles from the highway on a narrow
dirt road leading from Stateburg we find, nestled among the
moss covered trees, the High Hills' Baptist Church.
The congregation was organized in 1770, by the
Reverend Joseph Reese, and is among the oldest Baptist
congregations in the state.
In the church graveyard is
the tomb of the Reverend J. M. Roberts, D.D., first president
of Furman University and the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary. Members of High Hills' claim that these noted
Baptist educational institutions grew out of their
church.
BY
HAZEL CROWSON SELLERS
South Carolina Churches
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