Interesting historical site to see off of I-95 in SC

[Antonia]

I'm a native South Carolinian and I sometimes I like to get off of I-95 to stretch my legs. The Yemassee exit (can't recall the number, but it is clearly marked for Yemassee) looks like a pretty dull place to get off. However, six miles off the interstate on Sheldon Church Road you can see the ruins of a church built in the 1700's that was burned down twice - once in the Revolutionary War and again the Civil War. The brick walls still stand and you can see where the pulpit was. It is surrounded by those huge oak trees draped with Spanish Moss. There is no charge to see it. It just sits there on the roadside. It feels like a sacred place and it is very quiet with tombstones dating to the 1700's.
The road that it is on was once home to many plantations started in the early 1700's - mostly rice plantations - and now home to private landowners. You can see a couple of long sandy driveways flanked by huge oak trees with the low hanging limbs - looks like something out of Gone With the Wind - and it is just there right off of I-95. Definitely interesting to see and worth the stop off of I-95 if you're a history buff.

 

[bavaria]

Thanks for the info! I am a history buff and definitely go out of my way to see interesting sites. Road trips wandering through the mountains of Bavaria and Austria with my grandparents as a child gave me a fondness for this!

Now, I may jst need to drive to WDW after I visit SC later this year!