| Georgia (Stewart County), Florence — Florence |
| | Located on this site was the frontier town of Florence, which was incorporated on December 14, 1837 after the Creek Indians burned the nearby town of Roanoke in 1836. Florence was originally named Liverpool after the English port city. For many years the town flourished and could boast of a covered bridge linking it to Alabama, a newspaper, bank and hotel. Florence began to decline after the flood of 1846 washed away the bridge and the town was later bypassed by the railroad. The town site is . . . — Map (db m10024) |
| Georgia (Stewart County), Lumpkin — Bedingfield Inn |
| | The Bedingfield Inn or Tavern was constructed on this site in 1836 by Dr. Bryan N. Bedingfield as a family residence and stagecoach stop. It was a center for commercial and community activities and a one-day's travel from Columbus, Fort Gaines, Americus, and Eufaula, Alabama. Also known as the "Harrell House," "Cuba House" and "Ard House," it continued as a hotel or boarding house in the 1930's. In 1965, it was purchased by the Stewart County Historical Commission and restored as an 1840 house museum. — Map (db m24786) |
| Georgia (Stewart County), Lumpkin — Green Grove Missionary Baptist Church / Green Grove Schoolhouse |
| | Side 1:
Green Grove Missionary Baptist Church
This church served as the focus for the religious, educational and cultural life of African Americans in the Green Grove community during the late 19th century and well into the 20th century. Deacons Perry Hudson, Isaac Shorter and Lewis Cherry held the first church assembly under a brush arbor in 1886. The first church building was destroyed by a tornado c. 1919 and the second house of worship was consumed by a fire c. 1924. The . . . — Map (db m23459) |
| Georgia (Stewart County), Lumpkin — 128-13 — Methodist Camp Ground — ¼ Mi. S. → |
| | On a 10 acre plot of land in the exact center of the county was located, in 1830, the first permanent Methodist Camp Meeting Ground in Stewart County.
It was given by Loverd Bryan to be held and owned by the church as long as it was regularly used for Camp Meetings. For 4 years before meetings had been
held in various communities in the county and each claimed the Camp Ground. A 100 foot square shed, shingle-covered, was built for meeting and tents of
campers were set up around it and near . . . — Map (db m14521) |
| Georgia (Stewart County), Lumpkin — Our Soldiers |
| | In memory of the brave Confederate soldiers of Stewart County both those who fought and fell and those who fought and survived. — Map (db m12125) |
| Georgia (Stewart County), Lumpkin — Providence United Methodist Church |
| | Providence Church, when first organized, 1832-33, was a log building on the south side of the road. Two acres were donated by David Lowe for a church and school (Providence Academy). This land is now between two of the canyons. The present building was built in 1859, on the north side of the old Lumpkin-Florence road. Many Stewart County pioneer families are buried in the cemetery. Charter members were Goodes, Lowes, Worthingtons, Perkins, Kirkpatricks, Seays, Pitts, Adams, Shermans and Pattersons. — Map (db m12146) |
| Georgia (Stewart County), Lumpkin — Rev. David Walker Lowe |
| | Near this place Rev. David Walker Lowe built a home for his wife Jane Dorsey not long after 1825. He had been a Methodist circuit rider in the S. C. conference, later in the Ga. conference. Born July 22, 1794 in Warren Co., Ga., he was organizer and charter member of the Providence Methodist Church, built on the south side of the Lumpkin-Florence Road. He donated land on which the first church and schoolhouse were built. The land now lies between two of the canyons. The present Methodist church . . . — Map (db m15737) |
| Georgia (Stewart County), Lumpkin — Westville Symposium |
| | (Side One): On October 12, 1973 an informal group of fifty persons, having an interest in several areas of academic research, met at Westville's Yellow Creek campmeeting tabernacle for a three day symposium to discuss a subject of mutual concern. They came from across the nation to share information about evidence of transoceanic contacts between precolumbian Americans and ancient peoples of Europe, Asia and Africa. A major problem was popular skepticism resulting from the scholarly . . . — Map (db m21857) |
| Georgia (Stewart County), Richland — Cedarwood Cemetery |
| | In 1832 Henry Audulf gave 8 acres of this land for two churches and a cemetery. A native of Germany, Audulf was the first settler here. Methodist and Baptist churches were built. A few years later both were destroyed by a tornado. Only the Methodists rebuilt here. In 1912 the congregation moved to a new church. This cemetery alone remains of Audulf’s gift. Here rest many of Richland’s earliest citizens including Audulf’s son, John; his granddaughter, Mary Ann Audulf; and her husband, Dr. . . . — Map (db m23426) |
| Georgia (Stewart County), Richland — Historic Richland |
| | First settled in 1827, Richland was named for the home district of several pioneer families from South Carolina. The community became a busy railroad junction when the Savannah. Americus and Montgomery, and the Columbus Southern rail lines met here in 1889. Richland was incorporated in 1890. By 1913, the city had 3 banks, 3 hotels, 25 stores, guano factory, cotton seed oil mill, Coca Cola bottling plant and other enterprises. The older part of the city is a historic district listed in the . . . — Map (db m10152) |
| Georgia (Stewart County), Richland — 128-5 — Providence Chapel |
| | The first Christian Church in Georgia was constituted at this site in 1837. Services were held early in the 1830's by Rev. George Lynch Smith, first under a brush arbor and later in the log schoolhouse. This building, then two-story, was erected in 1857 under the pastorate of Rev. Smith's son, Dr. Jubilee Smith, pastor until 1895. The second story was used by the Smith Lodge No. 233 Masons from its organization in 1858. First officers were Dr. Smith, Jonathan Bridges, J.B. Oxford, Y.F. Wright, . . . — Map (db m12802) |
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