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| Georgia (Talbot County), Talbotton — 1831 Talbotton United Methodist Church | | | As Methodism moved across Georgia, in 1830 Jesse Sinclair and Henry W. Hilliard were sent by the South Carolina Methodist Conference to the Flint River Mission of which Talbot Co. was a part. In 1831 this circuit became a part of the newly formed Georgia Conference and by 1834 Talbotton became a separate Charge. Upon the incorporation of Talbotton on 20 December 1828 a lot was set aside for a Methodist Church and deeded to it on 25 June 1831. Soon a substantial wooden church was erected. In . . . — Map (db m23089) | | Georgia (Talbot County), Talbotton — William Bartram Trail — Traced 1773-1777 — Deep South Region | | | On March 21, 1970 H. Grady Bell and friends founded the "Bartram Trail Society of Georgia" at Zion Episcopal Church. — Map (db m11529) | | Georgia (Talbot County), Talbotton — 130-2 — Zion Episcopal Church — Erected 1848 | | | The edifice has been spared modernization and is a perfect replica of a typical English rural parish church of the Tudor-Gothic period.
The altar, communion rail, lectern-pulpit, and prayer desk are handmade of native walnut. The entire structure is put together with wooden pegs and handmade iron nails. The pipe organ, installed in 1850, and in continuous use since that time, is a Pilcher and still is operated by hand pump.
The choir loft at the east end of the structure opposite the . . . — Map (db m27233) |
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