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St. Helena Parish Chapel of Ease Ruins

Saint Helena Island, SC

Tabby walls are all that remain of a chapel built in the 1700s for plantation families who lived too far from Beaufort’s main parish church. Fire destroyed the chapel after the Civil War, leaving a stark shell and adjoining cemetery beneath Lowcountry trees.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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