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Location: In Berkeley County near State Highway, No. 6
The Episcopal Church has been demolished for the The Santee Cooper Project. Cemetery will be under water.
To Mr. Henry R. Dwight, of Pinopolis, SC
We are indebted for Hisotry and Inscriptions
In his Sentence of Consecration, dated January 1, 1847, Biship C.E. Gadsden receites the fact that "in or about the year of our Lord, 1806, the late Rene Ravenel, Esq. did give an acre of land for the pious purpose of erecting a church."
There is a plat among parish records showing that four acres and twenty-eight perches of land were given for the church purposes at Black Oak by Rene Ravenel (1762-1822). The plat bears no date, but it was obviously before 1822.
Tere is also a deed for "one acre of land on which the church lately built, near Black Oak stands." This deed was given by Dr. Henry Ravenel (1790-1867) and is dated Nov. 1846.
Dr. Henry Ravenel, on Oct. 5, 1867, gave a deed for "a paralellogram of land containing two acres surrounding the spot where said church now stands."
Dr. Rene Ravenel (1826-1875) by a deed dated March 10, 1874, gave 3.6 acres of land around the church. Plat is by John G. Gaillard, and dated Feb 13, 1874
Martha M. Porcher, by deed dated Aug. 28, 1913, gave to the church six tenths of an acre. Plat by Charles S. Dwight, dated Aug. 27, 1913.
The first church was built at Black Oak in 1808. In 1846, it was replaced by a larger and better building. This was consecrated by Bishop C.E. Gadsden, January 1, 1847, and has been used by the congregation ever since. During recent years, however, services have been help only once a year. Up to 1860 the church was the center of a large prosperious plantation community. The church has recently been taken down on account of the prospective flooding of teh area by the Santee-Cooper Project. It is not likely that it will be rebuilt.
The section around Black Oak was a part of St. John's Parish, established in 1706, with St. John's Church commonly called Biggin, as the parish church, but in 1855, a large section was cut from the old parish and Trinity Parish was formed. The church has commonly been called "BLACK OAK", but its real name is TRINITY. In the diocesan records it is designated as "TRINITY BLACK OAK".
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