Our Visit to the Unitarian Church and Cemetery,...

Since I cannot get the photos we took at the Unitarian Church and the cemetery in Charleston to load, I am going to link to the slide show I created at Associated Content. I have other photos to share about Charleston and Augusta that I will try to load on here when Gather starts letting me load photos again.

In the meantime, you can see the slideshow here:

Unitarian Church and Cemetery, Charleston

It was a really lovely place to wander, with plants, flowers and birds everywhere. I enjoyed our day in Charleston so much, but this was the highlight for me. And we did not have time to cover even a little of it.

The church was established in 1772, but it was not Unitarian at that time since the Unitarian movement did not begin until the early 1800's. It is mostly original, although all the stained glass except the two windows at the front had to be replaced in 1902 due to earthquake damage. It is the oldest Unitarian church in the South. The cemetery was established at the same time as the church, but in 1802 the minister's wife planned the garden in the cemetery, planting it with native plants and flowers. They are maintained by volunteers since the layout does not allow for any mechanical maintenance.

Apartments buildings around the sides of the graveyard have graves right up against their walls, with no fence or anything. I think that would be cool, except one of the ghost tours comes into the cemetery at night, and that would probably get annoying if you lived right next to it.