The altar in the Pineville Church dates back to 1810. According to Frederick A. Porcher’s Memoirs, in the early 19th century a sermon was preached every Sunday morning in the Pineville Church. In the afternoon, the congregation reassembled and evening prayers were read. No sermon followed, none was expected, and none was desired. Porcher wrote,
The St. Stephen’s Parish Church was built in 1754. Three ships filled with eager adventurers from England and Barbados landed on the Carolina coast in 1670 at the junction of the two rivers that formed the Atlantic. They named these rivers after the Lord Proprietor who funded their venture, Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper. They named