Sheldon, SC

Sheldon is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. The 2020 census counted 579 residents. A rural area in character, Sheldon was primarily a common gathering area for various plantation owners and slaves prior to the Civil War. Sheldon is renowned for the Old Sheldon Church Ruins. The short version is that Sheldon carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Sheldon: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The Pocosobo Town was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. Sheldon is located approximately halfway between Beaufort and Yemassee and just east of Interstate 95 in the heart of the Lowcountry region. U.S. Routes 17 and 21 run through the center of the community in a wrong-way concurrency.