The Convention was founded December 4, 1821 at First Baptist Church of Columbia with nine total messengers in attendance.

William B. Johnson and John Landrum were tasked with writing a constitution.

[3] As of 2000, there were 1,878 churches cooperating with the Southern Baptist Convention in South Carolina with 928,341 adherents.

[4] In 1825, the Convention elected a board to organize an institution to train young men for the ministry.

It officially opened in January 1827 and was named in honor of Richard Furman, a Baptist minister and education pioneer.