{"id":1662,"slug":"prince-frederick-s-chapel-ruins-plantersville-south-carolina","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Prince Frederick is the '59-76 — the '17 years' that's the built, the 'Civil War' that's the interrupted. The 'rice' is the economy — the 'Pee Dee' that's the planters, the 'enslaved' that's the labor. The 'facade' is the left — the '1966' that's the demolished, the 'unsafe' that's the declared.","The 'Gothic' is the style — the 'buttresses' that's the pinnacles, the 'rounded arches' that's the classical. The 'first' is the last — the 'last become first' that's the freed, the 'whites' that's the outnumbered. Prince Frederick is the ruin — the 'tower' that's the standing, the 'cemetery' that's the adjacent.","The file keeps Prince Frederick: the 1859-76 church, the rice economy, the 1966 demolition, and the facade.","Prince Frederick's Chapel is the archive's South Carolina file — the rice's ruin."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Prince Frederick's Chapel is the archive's South Carolina file — the planter's church.","A ruin keeps its facade — the file's suggestion being that Prince Frederick's hold is the timing: the '1859' that's the cornerstone, the 'rice' that's the collapsed, and the '1966' that's the demolished."]}],"name":"Prince Frederick's Chapel ruins","aliases":["Old Gunn Church","Prince Frederick's Episcopal Church"],"type":"CHURCH_RUINS","type_label":"Church Ruins","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["ghost-towns","hauntings"],"desc":"Ruins with builder folklore.","full_desc":"Prince Frederick's Chapel ruins is a church ruins in Plantersville, South Carolina. Ruins with builder folklore. Construction began in 1859. Most of the unsafe church was dismantled in 1966, leaving the west facade and tower. Local lore holds that Tour storytellers recount two Gunn brothers falling from the roof.","address":"Plantersville Road at Jackson Village Road","city":"Plantersville","county":"Georgetown County","state":"South Carolina","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":33.505882,"lon":-79.180379,"coord_kind":"EXACT","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":"National Register of Historic Places; nomination needs direct review","current_use":null,"research_notes":"Picture Project prose says completed 1877; its quoted National Register summary says 1876. Its legend says one Gunn brother died, whereas county tourism says both. State nomination returned 502.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0.3,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":873,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Tour storytellers recount two Gunn brothers falling from the roof. Witnesses name it Philip and Edward Gunn; the name travels further than the proof. The site in Plantersville, South Carolina gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. 'Find the 10 most-haunted places on the Hammock Coast' carries the account. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Philip and Edward Gunn","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.75,"conflict_notes":"Narrative identities or deaths require independent historical corroboration.","source":{"name":"Find the 10 most-haunted places on the Hammock Coast","url":"https://hammockcoastsc.com/what-are-the-10-most-haunted-places-on-the-hammock-coast/","publisher":"Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce / South Carolina Hammock Coast","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Construction began in 1859. Most of the unsafe church was dismantled in 1966, leaving the west facade and tower. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The press recorded it; the detail stands as reported history. Sources including 'Prince Frederick Church' carry the record. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Prince Frederick Church","url":"https://www.scpictureproject.org/georgetown-county/plantersvilles-prince-frederick-church.html","publisher":"South Carolina Picture Project","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Tour storytellers recount two Gunn brothers falling from the roof. The reports at Prince Frederick's Chapel ruins are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Find the 10 most-haunted places on the Hammock Coast","url":"https://hammockcoastsc.com/what-are-the-10-most-haunted-places-on-the-hammock-coast/","publisher":"Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce / South Carolina Hammock Coast","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Philip and Edward Gunn","claimed_identity":"Philip and Edward Gunn","verified":null,"summary":"Tour storytellers recount two Gunn brothers falling from the roof. The file calls it Philip and Edward Gunn. The site in Plantersville, South Carolina gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The account appears in 'Find the 10 most-haunted places on the Hammock Coast'. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","behavior":"Tour storytellers recount two Gunn brothers falling from the roof.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Find the 10 most-haunted places on the Hammock Coast","url":"https://hammockcoastsc.com/what-are-the-10-most-haunted-places-on-the-hammock-coast/","publisher":"Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce / South Carolina Hammock Coast","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting; check nps.gov for current hours and alerts.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Find the 10 most-haunted places on the Hammock Coast","url":"https://hammockcoastsc.com/what-are-the-10-most-haunted-places-on-the-hammock-coast/","publisher":"Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce / South Carolina Hammock Coast","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},{"name":"Prince Frederick Church","url":"https://www.scpictureproject.org/georgetown-county/plantersvilles-prince-frederick-church.html","publisher":"South Carolina Picture Project","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":2}}