Strawberry Chapel and Childsbury Town Site

SE of Moncks Corner on CR 44, N of the Tee of the Cooper River, Moncks Corner, South Carolina. County/parish: Berkeley.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 26, 1972. NRIS 72001194.

1 contributing building. 1 contributing site.

From Wikipedia:

Strawberry Chapel and Childsbury Town Site

Strawberry Chapel is a parochial chapel of ease in the lower part of St. John's, Berkeley Parish in Berkeley County, South Carolina that was built in 1725. It is on Strawberry Chapel Road between South Carolina State Highway 8-44 and the West Branch of the Cooper River. Bordering Strawberry's property is the South Carolina State owned historic site of the "Town of Childsbury." It was a planned community that was settled in 1707. The town no longer exists. They were named to the National Register of Historic Places on April 26, 1972. Strawberry Chapel, graveyard and lands are private property and only open to the public on special occasions and annual church services.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/118997223

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