Liberty Universalist Church and Feasterville Academy Historic District

Liberty Universalist Church and Feasterville Academy Historic District is a national historic district located near Winnsboro, Fairfield County, South Carolina. The property encompasses four buildings constructed between 1831 and 1845. They are the Liberty Universalist Church and three buildings associated with the Academy: a boarding house, a kitchen, and a school building.[2][3] The buildings were constructed by the Feaster family.

Liberty Universalist Church and Feasterville Academy Historic District
LocationSouth Carolina Highway 215, near Winnsboro, South Carolina
Coordinates34°30′13″N 81°21′36″W
Area8.3 acres (3.4 ha)
Built1832
Architectunknown
MPSFairfield County MRA
NRHP reference No.84000612[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 06, 1984

The Feaster family followed the family patriarch Andrew Feaster when he migrated from Lancaster County in eastern Pennsylvania to the Beaver Creek area in Fairfield County, South Carolina. In South Carolina, the Feasters were active in religious activities, first with the German Baptist Brethren and later with the Universalists. When Andrew Feaster died in 1821 his son John became the family patriarch.   John Feaster oversaw the construction of the buildings now included in the national historic district.

The construction of the church building in 1831 coincided with the formation of the South Carolina Convention of Universalists in November 1830.[4]  The academy buildings were constructed in 1845 as a commercial enterprise to provide educational facilities to area residents.  The school has alternately been referred to as an “academy,” “female seminary” and “boarding house.”  

The grounds and buildings continue to be used for private yearly family reunions.

The Historic District and related buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
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  3. "Liberty Universalist Church/Feasterville Academy Historic District, Fairfield County (S.C. Hwy. 215, Clayton vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 5 July 2012. and accompanying map
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  7. W.E. (September 16, 1880). "Beaver Creek Tunkers - The First Settlers". The News and Herald (Winnsboro, South Carolina, USA). p. 2.
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  9. Roger Sappington in The Brethren in the Carolinas claims the Rev. George Martin was the father of David Martin. This fact could not be independently verified.
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  16. "New Society and Southern Convention". Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate. I (43): 337–338 – via Google Books.
  17. "South Carolina Convention". Trumpet and Universalist Magazine. IV (23). December 3, 1831. p. 90.
  18. "South Carolina". The Universalist Register and Almanac Containing the Statistics of the Denomination for 1871: 64–65. 1871 – via Google Books.
  19. Bragg, Daniel Clayton (1889). Forty-seven Years in the Universalist Ministry. Columbia, South Carolina USA. p. 274.
  20. "No Title". The News and Herald, South Carolina, USA. November 22, 1877. p. 3.
  21. "South Carolina". The Universalist Register Giving Statistics of the Universalist Church and Other Denominational Information for 1887: 50. 1887 – via Google Books.
  22. "South Carolina". The Universalist Register: Giving Statistics of the Universalist Church and Other Denominational Information, etc., for 1896: 54. 1896 – via Google Books.
  23. Rosson, Etta. "Letter to Roger Etz, Exec. Secretary Universalist Church of America" (February 23, 1929) [textual record]. The Universalist Church of America (UCA), Fonds: bMS 400 Universalist Church of America. General Superintendent. Papers, 1906-1961., Series: Georgia 16 Mar 1929 to 1 Sep 1937, Box: 09, File: 02, p. 2. Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Andover-Harvard Theological Library.
  24. Tardy, Mary T (1872). "Mrs. Catherine Ladd". The Living Female Writers of the South. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger. pp. 489-490. Living female writers of the south tardy.
  25. Ligon, Pat Blair (September 9, 1954). "Feasterville Academy, Universalist Church Rich with Mellow Memories". The News and Herald, Winnsboro, South Carolina, USA.
  26. "Feasterville Female Seminary". Chester District Bulletin. XII (IV): 121. 1989.
  27. "Feasterville Female Seminary". The South Carolinian. October 24, 1844.
  28. "Held Sunday". The Chester News. July 29, 1970.
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