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Photograph of Pon Pon Chapel
Photograph by Bill Fitzpatrick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Pon Pon Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Pon Pon Chapel was built in 1820 in Jacksonboro, South Carolina. It was located "on Parker's Ferry Road, the busy stagecoach thoroughfare that connected Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia." Today, Parker's Ferry Road is a barely paved road along the south side of a power line right of way, and the ruins of the chapel can be found along this road east of Jacksonboro Road.”

Wikipedia article Pon Pon Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Colleton County · listed in 1972 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NW of Jacksonboro on Parker's Ferry Rd., Jacksonboro, 29474
  • When was it listed? January 1972
  • Category. site
  • Census division. Cottageville
  • National Register reference number. 72001205 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Pon Pon Chapel between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,154 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 34 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Arson/incendiarism34
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2002Arson/incendiarism15 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Colleton County

Storms near this property

39 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jacksonboro, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 31 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2008Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro$3,000A law enforcement official reported several trees and power lines down at Hope Plantation and Bright Road in Jacksonboro, South Carolina.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro$2,500A trained spotter reported two power lines down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro$2,000Colleton County Emergency Management reported a tree down along the 13100 block and 12000 block of Charleston Highway.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro$1,500Several trees were reported down in Jacksonboro, South Carolina.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro$1,250The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported power lines down on Highway 64 near the intersection with Sparks Drive.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro$1,000A Colleton County emergency manager reported a tree down along the 12000 Block of Charleston Highway.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro$1,000Colleton County Emergency Management reported a tree down at Ace Basin Parkway and Charleston Highway.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro$1,000Colleton County Emergency Management reported a tree down blocking both lanes at 1600 Charleston Highway.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro$1,000The South Carolina Department of Highways reported a tree down near the intersection of Parkers Ferry Road and Charleston Highway.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro$1,000The Colleton County 911 call center reported a tree down near the intersection of Parkers Ferry road and Charleston Highway.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro$1,000A tree was reported down near the intersection of Clinic Drive and Ace Basin Parkway.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro$1,000A trained weather spotter reported that the tops of two trees were broke off by strong thunderstorm winds 2 miles south of Jacksonboro, South Carolina.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro$500A tree fell in the roadway at East Jacksonboro Road and South Carolina Highway 64.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro$500A tree was reported down in Jacksonboro.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro-A Colleton County emergency manager reported a tree down along the 13000 Block of Charleston Highway.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Parkers Ferry Road.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro-A Colleton County emergency manager reported a tree down and blocking both lanes of Capital Road.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro-The Colleton County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Jacksonboro Road.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro-A Colleton County emergency manager reported power lines down and a power pole damaged near the intersection of Charleston Highway and Jacksonboro Road.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down at the intersection of Charleston Highway and Titen Road. Another tree was reported down, approximately a mile away, at the intersection of Charleston Highway and Jacksonboro Road.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro-A NWS employee reported a tree down near the intersection of Highway 17 and Highway 64.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro-Law enforcement reported a tree down at the intersection of Parkers Ferry Road and Jacksonboro Road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro-South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down on Hope Plantation Lane near Highway 17.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro-The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro-The Colleton County 911 Call Center reported trees down on Jacksonboro Road between Round O Road and Parkers Ferry Road.
October 2015FloodJacksonboro-An emergency manager reported Adeline Lane off Hope Plantation Lane impassible due to rising river levels on the Edisto River.
July 2012HailJacksonboro-Employee of Kangaroo Express on Highway 17 reported half dollar size hail.
May 2006HailJacksonboro-Quarter size hail at the Exxon gas station.
September 2004Tornado (F0)Jacksonboro-A tornado knocked down trees.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro-Several trees were down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro-Large limbs and trees were down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro-Large limbs and power lines were down.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro-Large limbs and power lines down.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro-Trees down.
April 2006HailJacksonboro-no account filed
April 2006HailJacksonboro-no account filed
May 1999Flash FloodJacksonboro-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindJacksonboro-no account filed
June 1998HailJacksonboro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Colleton County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Ravenwood Plantation5.2 miles1997

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 72001205 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Colleton CountyAll 12 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.