The first church on this site, known as Prince Frederick's Chapel, Pee Dee, was built in 1848 on land donated by the Rev. Hugh Fraser in 1834, and most of its parishioners were rice planters along the Pee Dee River. The ruins are those of the second church here, approved by a committee of R.F.W. Allston, Davison McDowell, and Francis Weston and begun in 1859, but its construction was interrupted by the Civil War. Designed in the Gothic Revival style by Louis J. Barbot, the church was completed in 1876 with a gift of $1700 from John Earle Allston. As rice planting declined, the church gradually fell into disrepair and was eventually considered unsafe. It was demolished in 1966, leaving only the front wall and tower, and the ruins were listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.