Museum Musings
Jerusalem Baptist Church, located at 6th Street and Laurens Avenue in Hartsville, is one of the oldest African-American churches in Darlington County. Organized after the Civil War, its first church service was held in a brush arbor on Snake Branch, a creek near E. Carolina Avenue. Jerusalem’s first permanent church, a log building, was built […]
During the Great Depression, Butler was in charge of the distribution of relief supplies to the African-American community, and as a Mason and an Odd Fellow, he was respected by religious and business leaders both black and white. According to "Rev. Henry Hannibal Butler," a remembrance written by Horace Fraser Rudisill, Butler, among his many other worthy and laudable accomplishments, was "remembered as always being immaculately dressed in coat, tie and vest with a gold watch chain prominently displayed."