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Near Sardis in Burke County, Georgia — The American South (South Atlantic)
 

First McCanaan Baptist Church

 
 
First McCanaan Baptist Church Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Duane and Tracy Marsteller, June 11, 2022
1. First McCanaan Baptist Church Marker
Inscription.
this property is listed in the
National Register
of Historic Places

by the United States
Department of the Interior
2001

 
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: African AmericansCemeteries & Burial SitesChurches & Religion. A significant historical year for this entry is 1912.
 
Location. 32° 59.067′ N, 81° 42.134′ W. Marker is near Sardis, Georgia, in Burke County. Marker is on McCanaan Road, 0.4 miles east of Murray Hill Road, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 329 McCanaan Rd, Sardis GA 30456, United States of America. Touch for directions.
 
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 11 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Sardis Baptist Church (approx. 3.4 miles away); Old Quaker Road (approx. 3˝ miles away); Original Site Sardis Baptist Church (approx. 4.3 miles away); British Army Crossing (approx. 4.6 miles away); Paris' Mill (approx. 4.6 miles away); Bethel United Methodist Church (approx. 9.4 miles away); Brick (Bethel) Church (approx. 9.4 miles away); Sherman's Left Wing (approx. 10.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Sardis.
 
Regarding First McCanaan Baptist Church. Excerpt from the National Register nomination:
… Rev. Frank Cooper organized
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the McCanaan Missionary Baptist Church in 1875 and a small church was constructed on the site of the existing church. During the 1890s, the earlier church was torn down and a second church constructed. In 1912, the existing church was constructed to replace the 1890s church. The church membership included many families who worked as sharecroppers at the nearby Millhaven Plantation in Screven County. During the early 1900s, a school servicing grades one through six was built behind the church (no longer extant). In the early 1930s, a cemetery was established at the church. During the late l9th and early 20th centuries when most rural African-Americans were unable to be economically independent due to their participation in the sharecropping system, African-American churches, such as McCanaan Missionary Baptist Church, were significant as African-American institutions that provided religious, educational, and social autonomy in rural Georgia.

 
Also see . . .
1. McCanaan Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery (PDF). National Register nomination for the church. (National Archives) (Submitted on June 18, 2022, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.) 

2. McCaanan Baptist. Brief history of the church (using an alternate spelling), which was among five organized by Rev. Frank Cooper. (Historic Rural Churches of Georgia) (Submitted on June 18, 2022, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.)
First McCanaan Baptist Church Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Duane and Tracy Marsteller, June 11, 2022
2. First McCanaan Baptist Church Marker
 
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on June 18, 2022. It was originally submitted on June 18, 2022, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This page has been viewed 124 times since then and 12 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on June 18, 2022, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

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