"S" is for St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish. Located in the peninsula formed by the Cooper and Wando Rivers in modern Berkeley County, St. Thomas and St. Denis were two of the ten original parishes created by the Church Act of 1706. It was colonial South Carolina's only parish within a parish. In 1706 the entire peninsula—with an English-speaking majority—was organized as St. Thomas Parish. But, in order to accommodate the French-speaking minority—the parish of St. Denis was established "in ye middle of it." By the mid-18th century intermingling and intermarriage had made the English and French “one and the same people,” and St. Thomas and St. Denis officially became one parish in 1784. With the abolition of the parish system, St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish became part of Berkeley County.
"S" is for St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish
