Salem Black River Church

Norma Brandsberg

#2268 of 2895

Norma Brandsberg

Goode, VA

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Title

Salem Black River Church

Artist

Norma Brandsberg

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

Description

Salem Black River Presbyterian Church, also known as the Brick Church, is a historic landmark, Greek Revival church in Mayesville, a town of just over 1,000, in Sumter County, South Carolina. This house of worship, commonly called the Brick Church, was founded by Scotch-Irish settlers in 1759 on land given by Capt. David Anderson but was an established church well before that time as a daughter church of Williamsburg Presbyterian Church in Kingstree, South Carolina.

Tall and somber in spirit, the sheer scale of its brick walls and solid cement columns cannot be captured in pictures. The atmosphere of the grounds exudes Southern History. It is said that ghosts still haunt the property.

This is the first brick church built in South Carolina by 1846. The church is still in use from time to time.

The churches worship hall still has a slave gallery.

It is said that the church and it's two graveyards are haunted by a priest from the 1900's. A plague had come over his family and killed everyone except him, he was the last member alive, during this time, he began to curse god, start satanic seances, and commit satanic mischief within the churches grounds. There is an old shack behind the church that apparently used to be his, some have said they have seen a solid dark figure standing inside while the lights are on. The first cemetery apparently just has normal people buried within it's grounds, but the graveyard in the back, is where all of the priests reside, though that cemetery seems to be covered by thick brush and to many plants and trees to get through. Though some people have said once they have gotten to the far end of the first graveyard to the gate in the back, they could hear slight talking and whispers coming from within those trees.

The back cemetery was locked when we passed buy so I could not get in to take photos, but the grave markers are extremely interesting and full of character.

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