Sandy Run Church / Christian Theus

Historical marker location:

1927 Old State Road, Gaston, South Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Old State Road (U.S. 176) and Old Swamp Road (State Highway 9-353), on the right when traveling west on Old State Road.)

Marker installed: 1983

South Carolina was a major center of the transatlantic slave trade. Charleston was one of the busiest ports for the importation of enslaved Africans in North America, with an estimated 40% of all enslaved Africans brought to the United States passing through the city.