The skeletal remains of a 271-year-old church in South Carolina’s Lowcountry are set to be resurrected five years after key parts collapsed for unknown reasons, historians say.
Pon Pon Chapel of Ease – built in 1754 – is a ghost church that consists largely of a grand entrance to nothing, but that’s not stopping an ambitious $1.2 million project to resurrect the facade.
Even now, the ravaged-looking doorway attracts a steady pilgrimage of tourists, archaeologists and paranormal investigators to a remote field 35 miles west of Charleston.
“The center and top (of the entrance) will be rebuilt to the original design,” USC History Professor Sarah E. Miller of the Colleton County Historical and Preservation Society told McClatchy News in an email…