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Mt. Tabor Baptist Church

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This simple frame building in the Georgetown County community of Yauhannah sits behind the modern Mt. Tabor Baptist Church. The small white sanctuary was built as the congregation’s second church in 1881. The congregation was organized on October 21, 1832 when a branch of the Little Pee Dee Baptist Church was formally recognized as Mt. Tabor Church of the Missionary Baptist Faith.

Mt. Tabor Baptist

Bill Segars of Hartsville, 2009 © Do Not Use Without Written Consent

A few weeks after its formation as Mt. Tabor, the congregation petitioned for admittance into the Welsh Neck Association, an affiliation with roots dating to 1736. During that year Welsh Baptists from Delaware and Pennsylvania settled along the Great Pee Dee River and established a community called Welsh Neck. Welsh Neck Baptist Church in Society Hill was the first church established in this eighteenth-century settlement and remains active to this day.

Mount Tabor Georgetown

Bill Segars of Hartsville, 2009 © Do Not Use Without Written Consent

The first church to house Mt. Tabor Baptist was made of logs and is no longer extant. When members decided to replace the cabin with this church, cypress trees where harvested from a nearby swamp. The logs were then floated down the Waccamaw River to nearby Bucksville in Horry County to be sawed at Buck’s Mill, the first steam-powered lumber mill in the Southeast.

Mount Tabor

Bill Segars of Hartsville, 2009 © Do Not Use Without Written Consent

The lumber was then sent back to Yauhannah and hauled by oxen to the site where the church now stands. The church pews, which remain in the historic sanctuary, were hewn of the same wood.

Mount Tabor Pew

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A new brick church was built in 1956, and a fellowship hall was added to the new building in 1972. However, special services are still held occasionally in the old church.

Mt. Tabor Interior

Bill Segars of Hartsville, 2009 © Do Not Use Without Written Consent

Reflections on Mt. Tabor Baptist Church


Contributor Bill Segars shares his experience photographing this historic church: “When I read about Mount Tabor in Yauhannah back in 2009, I said that I must go to this place. This little building is behind their present church building that they use now. Interesting note: The seat is made of one board 16″ wide, the back is also one board 22” wide. Beautiful heart pine lumber.

“As a rule I don’t like to go looking for churches on Sunday morning. I thought that I had this one planned right, getting there at 12:30 on a Sunday. Well I was wrong, as they were having dinner on the grounds. This was one time that I made a good mistake. I spoke to some folks to tell them what I was doing, and they invited me in to eat with them. Not wanting to offend my new-found friends, I felt like I must join them to eat. Good decision. I ate and we talked and they opened the little building up for me and gave me the grand tour. Nice, nice people.”

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Plan Your Trip: Mt. Tabor Baptist Church

Where is Mt. Tabor Baptist Church located?
Address: 18504 North Fraser Street, Yauhannah, SC 29440
GPS Coordinates: 33.612024,-79.194897
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