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  Historic Church suffers from vandalism web posted November 17, 2006  COUNTY – Horn's
Creek Baptist Church, incorporated in 1790 and placed
on the National
Historic Register in 1971, has seen the restoration
done in 1988 completely washed away due to vandalism. Several years ago
the Edgefield County Baptist Association transferred the deed to the
church to the Edgefield County Historical Society. During the
restoration the society
put over $12,000 into the church. Today the church is falling into
despair as local teens and others have spray painted and carved
graffiti into the walls, broken grave markers, toppled headstones, and
broken every window out of the historic church.A caretaker was placed at the location to protect against the vandals but when he became ill and moved back to Columbia, SC, the return of vandals took its toll, including the destruction of the caretaker’s camper.  Bettis Rainsford, of
the Historical Society, said the society is set to
begin construction of a caretaker’s cabin for the church. “We’ve
received some recent gifts, one today,” Mr. Rainsford said, “and we
should begin building it shortly, within the next few weeks.”
After its completion a restoration project for the church is slated to
begin to restore the church to its original condition.Mr. Rainsford said Charles Kemp, of Edgefield, oversaw the last restoration project that took place from 1987 and 1988 but did not name who would oversee the latest restoration. Only one of the original hinged folding entry doors remain and none of the wooden shutters or windowpanes are present. The pulpit is also gone which was used to preach to the one room church. The church is also significant in location due to a 1781 Revolutionary War skirmish in which patriot Captain Thomas Key of Colonel Leroy Hammond’s regiment, attacked a Tory party under Captain Clark. Clark was killed and the entire company was taken prisoner. For
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