Found on quite a few maps of South Carolina as early as 1779 and as late as 1799, a small village named Saint Stephens can be found way up the Santee River, well northeast of Moncks Corner, in what is today Berkeley County - it was in the Charleston District at that early time.

It is known that this area was named Saint Stephens Parish of the SC Anglican Church. Apparently over the years enough folks gathered into a community large enough for the mapmakers to include this village on several of their maps.

Nothing else is currently known about this village/hamlet in early South Carolina.