The History of the Old Sheldon Church Ruins in South Carolina

Old Sheldon Church Ruins with four brick columns and roofless church walls in Yemassee, South Carolina.

Some places look beautiful in photographs. Then you arrive, step through the gate, and realize the photographs didn’t prepare you at all. That was the Old Sheldon Church Ruins for me. Hidden beneath enormous live oaks in the South Carolina Lowcountry, the remains of this eighteenth-century church rise from the landscape almost like they were … Read more