Established about 1870, Shady Grove Camp Ground is the largest of four Methodist camp grounds in Dorchester County. Tradition holds that Ceasar Wolfe and a group of former slaves, caught in a storm, stopped in a grove here for shelter. Rice planter S.M. Knight asked them to help harvest his fields, and after they did so he gave them this spot as a place of worship, which they named Shady Grove. The group first met under a brush arbor but later built "tents," the rough-hewn cabins typical of church camp grounds. The first tents burned in 1958 and were replaced, and fires also occurred in 1969 and 1976. The tabernacle is the centrally located shelter where services are in session ending the fourth Sunday in October, and a trumpet call on a ceremonial horn opens the meeting.