First Baptist Church

Historical marker location:

Sumter, South Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of South Washington Street and Dingle Street, on the left when traveling south on South Washington Street.)

Marker installed: 1989

Baptist denomination churches religion

South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union, but it was also the last state to rejoin the Union after the Civil War. Reconstruction in the state was marked by violence and political turmoil.