News

  • Press Release: Upstate Women Named Governor’s Award Winner by PreservationSC

    June 27, 2023 | Pickens County Native Mable Owens Clarke Recognized for Lifetime Achievement

  • Soapstone Church’s famed fish fry in Pickens will return for one day

    March 4, 2023 | Post and Courier

  • Black History Month: Brick by brick, Mable Owens Clarke shares history of Soapstone Church

    February 7, 2023 | Greenville Journal

  • “Preserving history: Soapstone church founded by freed slaves, permanently protected” Fox Carolina”

    November 3, 2022 | Fox Carolina

  • “Historic Soapstone Church and grounds permanently protected”

    October 18, 2022 | Upstate Forever

  • “Founded by freed slaves and saved by a promise, Upstate church to be preserved”

    October 9, 2022 | The Post & Courier Greenville

  • “Upstate Forever shines a light on local conservation heroes”

    June 14, 2022 | Greenville Journal

  • Soapstone Baptist Church

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