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Padgett's Creek Baptist Church
Padgett's Creek Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist Church (building), church located at 843 Old Buncombe Rd, Union, South Carolina near Cross Keys, South Carolina, Cross Keys, Union County, South Carolina. It was built between 1844 and 1848, and is a plain, rectangular two-story meeting house building over slightly raised brick supports. The front has a portico added in 1958. There is also a one-story rear addition. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. References External links * Padgett's Creek Baptist Church Official Site Baptist churches in South Carolina Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Churches completed in 1844 19th-century Baptist churches in the United States Churches in Union County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Union County, South Carolina Southern Baptist Convention churches {{SouthCarolina-church-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union, South Carolina
The city of Union is the county seat of Union County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 8,393 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Union Micropolitan Statistical Area (population 28,961 according to 2010 Census), which includes all of Union County and which is further included in the greater Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, South Carolina Combined Statistical Area (population 1,266,995 according to the 2010 Census). History Both the city of Union and Union County received their names from the old Union Church that stood a short distance from the Monarch Mill. When it was first founded, the city of Union was known as Unionville; later the name was shortened to Union. The county's first white settlers came from Virginia in 1749. Union County's population grew the fastest between 1762 and the start of the Revolutionary War. Settlers built log cabins and cultivated tobacco, flax, corn and wheat. Union was one of the first towns settled in the are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
