near Glennville in Tattnall County, Georgia — The American South (South Atlantic)

Love's Chapel Primitive Baptist Church

Love's Chapel Primative Baptist Church Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mike Stroud, 2010

1. Love's Chapel Primative Baptist Church Marker

Inscription. This church was constituted and its first sanctuary built in 1888 on `Love`s Old Field,` land donated by G.M. Love. Charter members were the J.J. Kicklighters, the Dennis Lynns, Allen Lynn, and D.B. Smith, the church`s first clerk. Elders on the constituting presbytery were H.B. Wilkerson, Bazil Jones, and M.F. Stubbs, the first pastor. In 1896 the church was one of seven organizing members of the Bethel Primitive Baptist Association. J. Walter Hendricks, pastor from 1932-43, became the first president of Birdwood College, now Thomas College, in Thomasville. This c.1930 sanctuary was remodeled in the 1960s.

Erected 2000 by The Georgia Historical Society and Love`s Chapel Primitive Baptist Church. (Marker Number 132-1.)

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Religion & Religious Structures. In addition, it is included in the Georgia Historical Society series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1888.

Location. 31° 58.884′ N, 81° 57.079′ W. Marker is in near Glennville, Georgia, in Tattnall County. It is on Love's Chapel Road (County Road 396), on the right when traveling north. Located north of County Road 416. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 3410 Love's Chapel Road, Glennville GA 30427, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Georgia’s Coastal Plain. It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Deep South.

Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

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At least 8 other markers are within 13 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Beards Creek Church (approx. 4.9 miles away); Old Shiloh Cemetery (approx. 8.1 miles away); Beard's Bluff: A Revolutionary Post (approx. 9.6 miles away); Tattnall Campground (approx. 10.6 miles away); Bellville (approx. 11.9 miles away); The DeLoach House (approx. 12.1 miles away); The Alexander Hotel (approx. 12.2 miles away); Tattnall County (approx. 12.2 miles away).

Love's Chapel Primative Baptist Church and Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mike Stroud, 2010

2. Love's Chapel Primative Baptist Church and Marker

Love's Chapel Primative Baptist Church image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mike Stroud, 2010

3. Love's Chapel Primative Baptist Church

Photographed by Mike Stroud, 2010

4. Love's Chapel Primative Baptist Church

Love's Chapel Primative Baptist Church Marker, looking south along Love's Chapel Road (Co. Road 39) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mike Stroud, 2010

5. Love's Chapel Primative Baptist Church Marker, looking south along Love's Chapel Road (Co. Road 39)

Photographed by David Seibert, August 4, 2012

6. Love's Chapel Primative Baptist Church Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on September 8, 2025. It was originally submitted on December 2, 2010, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina. This page has been viewed 916 times since then and 36 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on December 2, 2010, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina. 6. submitted on September 20, 2012, by David Seibert of Sandy Springs, Georgia.