Edisto Island Baptist Church is a historic African-American

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on Edisto Island in

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. Built in 1818, it is a two-story church sheathed in beaded weatherboard with a medium pitched gable roof. An addition doubling its size was completed about 1865, and a two-story pedimented

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was added in 1880. It was added to the

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in 1982.

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