This building, commonly called "The Old Stone Church" began construction in the summer of 1850. Its members met in an old log cabin located one-quarter mile south of the present structure from 1837 to 1845. A site was selected one mile south in 1845 . . . — — Map (db m207193) HM
Organized in 1837, the Chickamauga Presbyterian Church, commonly call "The Old Stone Church," was a landmark in the Ringgold area at the time of the war.
The coming of the Western and Atlantic Railroad and the construction of an impressive . . . — — Map (db m207194) HM
Sardis Church, about 2 miles West on this Road, is the oldest church in Charlton County. Constituted some time before 1821, the first edifice was built in this area. The church was moved to or near its present site in 1840. The pulpit in this . . . — — Map (db m27439) HM
About 2 miles East, on this road, is the site of "Fort Alert, usually called Trader's Hill." Established in the 18th century, and defended by a stockade garrisoned by U.S. Troops, Trader's Hill was a refuge for settlers during the Indian Wars. At . . . — — Map (db m14472) HM
The Isle of Hope Methodist Church was organized in 1851. The first Trustees were George W. Wylly, Simeon F. Murphy, John B. Hogg, William Waite, Theodore Goodwin, Thomas J. Barnsley and the Rev. William S. Baker.
The church building that stands . . . — — Map (db m15947) HM
Houston Baptist Church and its adjoining cemetery were
organized in 1886 under the leadership of Reverend Ulysses L. Houston, minister of First Bryan Baptist Church in Savannah. A significant religious and political leader in the African-American . . . — — Map (db m7962) HM
Richmond Baptist Church and its adjoining cemetery were organized on March 14, 1897 under the leadership of Rev. E.K. Love, third pastor of First African Baptist Church in Savannah. Rev. Love was a significant missionary and religious leader in the . . . — — Map (db m53372) HM
Pin Point was settled in 1896 by former slaves from Ossabaw, Green, and Skidaway Islands. Sweetfield of Eden Baptist Church, founded in Pin Point in 1897, was a successor to Ossabaw’s Hinder Me Not Church and also served as the community's school . . . — — Map (db m54183) HM
In May 1874 two Benedictine priests arrived
in Savannah to work with the city's African-
American community, and constructed a
church four blocks north of here. In 1889
a new building was constructed at this site.
The Society of African . . . — — Map (db m15721) HM
Savannah Methodism's first church building was erected on this corner of Lincoln and South Broad (now Oglethorpe) streets in 1812 by its first pastor, Rev. James Russell. Bishop Francis Asbury preached twice in Wesley Chapel on November 21, 1813. In . . . — — Map (db m5447) HM
This Chapel Is Dedicated To
A. Douglass Strobhar
As a mark of esteem and affection
by the Board of Managers
of the
Savannah Port Society
It is a tribute to his loyality and unfailing faithfulness since he became a member of the board . . . — — Map (db m6904) HM
This Federal style house was constructed in the late eighteenth century as the residence of William Barnard, nephew of Sir John Barnard who, while serving in the British Parliament distinguished himself as a patron of the Georgia Colony
The . . . — — Map (db m9166) HM
The congregation of St. John the Baptist formed in the late eighteenth century when French émigrés fleeing revolutions in France and Haiti found refuge in Savannah. The Church of St. John the Baptist became a cathedral in 1850 when the Diocese of . . . — — Map (db m6021) HM
†
I.H.S.
Christ Church
Founded A.D. 1733. Chartered 1789.
Destroyed by Fire 1796. Rebuilt & enlarged 1803.
Injured by a hurricane 1804. Constructed anew 1810.
Taken down, and
This Edifice Erected
1838. Partially . . . — — Map (db m13665) HM
This Episcopal Church was the first house of
worship established with the founding of Georgia in 1733. Early rectors included the Rev. John Wesley (1736-37), who began the earliest form of Sunday school and published the first English hymnal in . . . — — Map (db m5304) HM
(upper marker): Christ Church Parish House
(lower marker): The
hand wrought weather vane
atop this building
is from the 12th century church of
Cranham, Essex, England
where Gen. James Edward Oglethorpe
is . . . — — Map (db m6115) HM
First African Baptist Church (FABC) traces its roots to 1773 and the organization of a congregation at nearby Brampton Plantation by Rev. George Leile. Under the leadership of Rev. Andrew C. Marshall (3rd pastor), the congregation obtained this . . . — — Map (db m133007) HM
On November 26, 1800 the Reverend Henry Holcombe
and fifteen other Baptists organized the Savannah
Baptist Church. As early as 1795 a group of interested
Baptists had erected a house of worship on Franklin
Square where the congregation . . . — — Map (db m13663) HM
First Baptist Church, Savannah’s oldest standing house of worship, was designed by Elias Carter and completed in 1833. The congregation dates to 1800. In 1922 the front of the building was extended, a cupola removed, and the edifice covered with . . . — — Map (db m13608) HM
The Independent Presbyterian Church was organized in 1755. The first meeting house stood facing Market Square in Savannah, between what are now St. Julian and Bryan Streets, on property granted by King George II for the use and benefit of those . . . — — Map (db m5515) HM
Near this site on July 11, 1733, five months
after Oglethorpe founded Georgia, 42 Jewish
colonists, having sailed from London,
disembarked from the William and Sarah.
It was the largest group of Jews ever to sail
on one vessel from . . . — — Map (db m26707) HM
On this spot, where stood the
first public building erected in
Georgia, John Wesley preached
his first sermon on American soil.
March 7, 1736 (OS)
Text- 1 Corinthians XIII
— • —
This tablet commemorates the Bi-Centenary . . . — — Map (db m14128) HM
South face:
Founder of Methodism
Minister
Of The
Church of England
In Savannah
1736-1737
East face:
My hearts desire
for this place
is not that it be
a famous or rich
but that it may be
a religous colony . . . — — Map (db m15622) HM
On the "trust lot" south of President Street and immediately west of this square stood in 1736- 37 the parsonage in which John Wesley resided. In the adjoining garden he read, prayed and meditated. Weekly meetings of members of his Christ Church . . . — — Map (db m5275) HM
Born in Pocotaligo, SC, Jonathan Bryan accompanied James Oglethorpe on his initial visit to Yamacraw Bluff in 1733. One of Georgia’s largest landholders, Bryan was a supporter of evangelist George Whitefield and encouraged religious services for his . . . — — Map (db m41816) HM
Lowell Mason, noted composer of sacred music, was organist of the Independent Presbyterian Church (1820- 1827), and Superintendent of its Sunday School (1815- 1827). A native of New England, Mason moved to Savannah at the age of twenty. He resided . . . — — Map (db m5635) HM
On April 14, 1741, John Martin Bolzius, who as Pastor of the Salzburgers at Ebenezer was in charge of Lutheran work in the colony of Georgia, founded the congregation now known as the Lutheran Church of the Ascension. In 1756 members of the . . . — — Map (db m6601) HM
This wall is an adaptation of what is believed to be, after through archaeological research sponsored by Historic Savannah Foundation, the original Presbyterian Meeting House, now the Independent Presbyterian Church, housed on the land granted by . . . — — Map (db m5510) HM
The nearby Salzburger Monument of Reconciliation was dedicated to The Georgia Salzburger Society and given to the City of Savannah in 1994 by the State of Salzburg, Austria, in memory of the Lutheran Protestants of Salzburg who were denied . . . — — Map (db m6116) HM
On Green Square
Was founded December 26, 1802
by Rev. Henry Cunningham and
Twenty-five other Baptists.
General William T. Sherman and
Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton
met with the Negroes of this city
and the newly freed slaves . . . — — Map (db m14559) HM
The oldest Black Congregation in North America began in 1773. May 20, 1775 the church was born with Rev. George Leile as its pastor; and constituted January 20, 1788 with Rev. Andrew Bryan, Pastor.
( Plaque 2 )
To The Glory Of God . . . — — Map (db m90012) HM
Mother Church of Savannah Methodism
Trinity Church is the oldest Methodist Church in a city whose intimate association with John Wesley and George Whitefield gives it a unique place in the history of Methodism. The cornerstone of the . . . — — Map (db m5478) HM
Wesley Chapel Trinity In 1812 The Methodist Church in Savannah was formally established with the founding of Wesley Chapel at Lincoln & Oglethorpe Streets. Bishop Francis Asbury dedicated that building in 1813. In 1848 the congregation built a . . . — — Map (db m163905) HM
The oldest Congregation now practicing Reform Judiasm in the United States. Mickve Israel was founded by a group of Jews, mainly of Spanish-Portuguese extraction, which landed at Savannah, July 11, 1733, five months after the establishment of the . . . — — Map (db m5298) HM
Site of
Marist School for Boys
1919 - 1939
——
Grammer School Operated by
Marist Brothers of the Schools
——
Last Graduating Class June 9, 1939
Rev. Bro. Eugene Bergeron, F.M.S.
Teacher
Rev. Bro, . . . — — Map (db m18424) HM
Organized January 19, 1868
as Wesley Church
renamed Wesley Monumental, 1875
and built as a monument
to John and Charles Wesley
Founders of the
Methodist Movement
Sanctuary cornerstone laid
August 10, 1875
completed and dedicated . . . — — Map (db m6104) HM
Centennial
1868 - 1968
Wesley Monumental
United Methodist Church
Originally Wesley Church, was founded
January 19, 1868. The cornerstone for
this building was laid August 10, 1875,
but has not since been located. In . . . — — Map (db m6098) HM
The first schools in the West Savannah neighborhood were established on Fell Street south of this spot in the early twentieth century. The Saint Anthony of Padua school was one of three schools established by Father Ignatius F. Lissner and a group . . . — — Map (db m157196) HM
Mathilda Taylor was born in 1834 in New Orleans, and came to Savannah as a young woman. She taught black children in her home before the Civil War, when it was still illegal. She married Abraham Beasley, a successful black businessman, in 1869. . . . — — Map (db m6009) HM
The first African Methodist Church in Georgia was organized by the Rev. A. L. Stanford on June 16, 1865, at Savannah, Georgia and was given the name Saint Phillip African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Two months and fifteen days later, the Sunday . . . — — Map (db m9392) HM
Here meets the oldest congregation following the Reformed (Calvinistic) theological tradition in continuous service in Georgia. In 1737, 160 Reformed Germans came to Savannah seeking religious freedom. After working their terms as indentured . . . — — Map (db m121852) HM
In 1841, under the inspiration of Sister Catherine McAuley of Dublin, Ireland, a group of Sisters of Mercy came to the United States to establish infirmaries and schools to minister to the poor and sick immigrants. In 1845, the Sisters of Mercy came . . . — — Map (db m34948) HM
From 1878 to 1889, Robert Sengstacke Abbott lived in the parsonage of Pilgrim Congregational Church, once located on this site. His stepfather John H. H. Sengstacke, minister of the church, published the Woodville Times. Abbott learned the . . . — — Map (db m15782) HM
Andrew Bryan was born at Goose Creek, S.C. about 1716. He came to Savannah as a slave and here he was baptized by the Negro missionary, the Reverend George Leile, in 1781. Leile evacuated with the British in 1782 at the close of the American . . . — — Map (db m15624) HM
First Bryan dates its founding to the constitution of the Ethiopian Church of Jesus Christ under Rev. Andrew Bryan in January 1788, making it one of the nation's oldest African-American Baptist churches. Known later as First Colored Church, First . . . — — Map (db m200204) HM
On February 6, 1736, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, landed at Peeper (now Cockspur) Island near here and there preached to his fellow voyagers his first sermon on American soil. A monument has been erected on Cockspur Island to commemorate . . . — — Map (db m5072) HM
(upper inscription):
John Wesley
landed in America
on this island.
February 6, 1736
(lower inscription):
From
the Journal of John Wesley
"Fri, 6,- About eight in the morning I first set my foot on American ground. It . . . — — Map (db m12917) HM
Hugh Montgomery, born in S.C. Jan. 8, 1769, is buried here. He was employed in 1786 to survey the line between Franklin Co. and the Cherokee Nation. He represented Jackson Co. in the Ga. Legislature in 1807-11 and in the State Senate 1812-18 and . . . — — Map (db m51687) HM
In 1922 Rev. H.M. Melton of Bluffton Baptist Church challenged his congregation to set aside one acre of farmland and donate the proceeds from crops raised there to the cash-poor rural church. Seven farmers agreed. The "Lord's acres" not only . . . — — Map (db m228376) HM
This church was constituted on July 21, 1822, under the leadership of the Rev. Jim Davis, when Fort Gaines was part of Early County. Land for the church was donated and deeded by J. Hugh Edge. The first building, which also served as a schoolhouse, . . . — — Map (db m47207) HM
New Lowell United Methodist Church
Methodist Episcopal Church worship services were conducted in this area during the early 1840’s in a brush arbor. The original church, known as Lowell, was destroyed by fire during the Civil War. From 1865 to . . . — — Map (db m23419) HM
This pioneer sanctuary stood some 200 ft. W., atop the hill. Long since vanished, its site is indicated by the HUTCHESON CEMETERY. It was cited as a landmark on maps of military operations by Federal armies moving E. toward the Macon . . . — — Map (db m18889) HM
Morrow Station was established as a depot on the Macon & Western R. R. when it was put into operation in 1846. A post office was opened here in 1871, and the City of Morrow was incorporated in 1943.
The birthplace and childhood home of Capt. . . . — — Map (db m37016) HM
Bethany Primitive Baptist Church was initiated as an arm of Union Church in 1841, and was formally constituted in May, 1847.
In the cemetery adjoining the church, on the high bluff of Arabia Bay, are buried many of the pioneers of this section, . . . — — Map (db m14648) HM
Site of Gilgal Primitive Baptist Church, a log structure and prominent landmark during military operations, June 5-17, 1864, in which church was destroyed. Cleburne’s Div., Confederate, was posted at the ch., the left of Johnston’s line [CS] after . . . — — Map (db m17680) HM
After withdrawing his corps from Lost Mtn. June 9, Polk’s H’dq’rs. [CS] were at the John Kirk house 1 mi. W. on this rd. June 10, h’dq’rs. were moved to Hardage house. Sun. June 12. The Bishop-General read the church service (Episcopal) for his . . . — — Map (db m17665) HM
Facing demolition, this house was relocated here in 2005 from its original site on the battlefield at Gilgal Church in west Cobb County. On 1864 military maps, it was referred to as the “Dixon House”. The house was damaged by artillery . . . — — Map (db m33426) HM
Near this location on August 17, 1915, Leo M. Frank, the Jewish superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, was lynched for the murder of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory employee. A highly controversial trial fueled by . . . — — Map (db m16574) HM
The campground was established in 1837 at the recommendation of a Methodist "circuit rider" who traveled to serve many churches. The original 40-acre site was purchased for $40.00 and included the land now occupied by the church and cemetery across . . . — — Map (db m11205) HM
The Methodist Church of Marietta was founded with thirty-seven members in 1833. For four years Rev. John P. Dickenson led services in the Cobb County Court House. On this site in 1837 the congregation built its first building, a log cabin church. To . . . — — Map (db m227638) HM
In 1886, Mr. & Mrs. R.T. Nesbitt sold Union Chapel to the church’s trustees. The deed specified it was to be used by all Christian denominations and by schools and agricultural societies. As this was a rural community, various clergymen preached . . . — — Map (db m229696) HM
Zion Baptist Church was organized in 1866 by 88 former slaves who left First Baptist Church. The first worship place was a brush arbor. Next a small wooden structure was built which was destroyed by fire.
In 1888, the present structure was . . . — — Map (db m42785) HM
This house was the residence of Alice McClellan Birney, co-founder of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers during the post-war era.
The home was probably built by Miss Mary Ann Nesbit prior to 1869, in which year it was purchased by . . . — — Map (db m19980) HM
Prominent minister who was born a slave 1833. He was a charter member of Zion Baptist at its founding in 1866 and its second pastor (1869-1885). In 1885 he organized Cole St. & later Pleasant Grove and Whitlock Avenue Baptist Churches. In 1890 . . . — — Map (db m15191) HM
The only slave burial ground in any major white Georgia cemetery. Here 19 Christian slaves and freed persons of Marietta Christians were buried in unmarked graves ca. 1848-1866. Only four have been positively named, servants of Mrs. Eliza G. . . . — — Map (db m15188) HM
Founded circa 1850, the original church was destroyed in 1864 by the Federal Army and rebuilt after the Civil War. The church, cemetery, and nearby spring carry the name of James A. Collins, an Atlanta pioneer, merchant, and local landowner. His . . . — — Map (db m33421) HM
Traditional history says this cemetery was established in 1838 by the Smyrna Methodist Church. However, Wylie Flannigan of Campbell County, Ga. took title to Land Lot 522 in which the cemetery is located, on July 1, 1843 after paying Georgia $5.00 . . . — — Map (db m17066) HM
This church was organized in 1857. The first sanctuary, made of logs, was situated near the still-present old well. A number of Coffee County’s prominent citizens were early members of the church and are buried within the cemetery, including William . . . — — Map (db m57084) HM
This site, along with 19,600 acres, was purchased through a state land lottery, September, 1843-44, by Rev. Eli Graves, formerly of Vermont. In March, 1848, all was sold to his brother, Presbyterian pastor, Rev. Joel S. Graves. In 1850, using . . . — — Map (db m40691) HM
Kiokee Church, the first Baptist Church to be constituted in Georgia, was organized in the Spring of 1772, by the Rev. Daniel Marshall, one of the founders of the Baptist denomination in Georgia. A meeting house was built, and the Rev. Daniel . . . — — Map (db m27064) HM
Born in Columbia County, GA, c. 1794. The son of Abraham and Ann (Waller) Marshall. Followed his father as pastor of this church, which he served until his death. He was educated as the University of Georgia. Notable positions include clerk, . . . — — Map (db m88576) HM
This building, Kiokee Church's sixth meeting house, was erected in 1937 with the help of many Georgia Baptists as a monument to Daniel Marshall. Not later than 1770, he was arrested for preaching in Colonial Georgia at a site east of this marker. . . . — — Map (db m87419) HM
Damascus Baptist Church, organized July 29, 1820, was constituted by Samuel Cartledge and Widner Hilman. First members were Jeremiah Blanchard, James Ramsey, Jeremiah Roberts, Sara Blanchard, Sara Reid, Dilly Swan and Margaret Wilkins. James . . . — — Map (db m13816) HM
Sharon Baptist Church was founded in 1799.
The first pastor, Abraham Marshall, who served
the church until his death in 1819, probably
constituted the church. This building, the
second on the site, was erected in 1869. Many
names . . . — — Map (db m27056) HM
Shiloh Methodist Church, the outgrowth of the earliest known Methodist place of worship in this community, has had a church building on this site for over 125 years. Originally, services started by a local hermit "who lived by a spring," were . . . — — Map (db m27067) HM
In 1839, the Reverend Levi Bedenbaugh and a number of Lutheran families began migrating to Coweta Co. GA from the Dutch Fork Region of SC. Reverend Edenbaugh led in the establishment of the Mt. Pilgrim Lutheran congregation in 1840 and they . . . — — Map (db m236655) HM
William Isham Cole was born May 7, 1805. He married Lovina Clark about the same time as the Treaty of New Echota between the U.S. Government and the Cherokee Nation that ended all Native land claims in the State of Georgia. Cole took advantage of . . . — — Map (db m134461) HM
Attapulgus was one of the first settlements in Decatur County, Georgia. It was first known as the Borough of Pleasant Grove. The name was changed when a post office was established in 1838. “Attapulgus” was taken from a Creek Indian . . . — — Map (db m40944) HM
The First Presbyterian Church once stood here. It was a handsome building with a lofty ceiling, vestibule and three sided gallery. The lot was one-half acre in size, cost $110 and was bounded by Troup, West and Crawford Streets. The congregation was . . . — — Map (db m55493) HM
Founded in 1823, title to this property was conveyed to the church in 1830 by the Inferior Court, Bainbridge. An initial building was erected about 1840 and was also used during the 1850’s for services by Baptists and Presbyterians. In 1854 an . . . — — Map (db m55804) HM
Chartered in 1835 by Georgia Presbyterians near Milledgeville, Oglethorpe University was the first denominational college established in the Deep South.
It perished during the Civil War and was briefly revived from 1870 to 1872 in Atlanta. . . . — — Map (db m14291) HM
On June 3, 2005, the central road of this campus was formally named “Ivy Street,” in honor of the hallowed tradition associated with the original Marist
campus on Ivy Street in downtown Atlanta.
With 32 boys and five . . . — — Map (db m14203) HM
The Beacon Community was the center of Decatur’s African American community until its demolition by the Urban Renewal programs of the mid-1960s. Bounded by N. McDonough Street on the east, W. Trinity Place on the north, Water Street on the west and . . . — — Map (db m29260) HM
This ancient trail led west to the Indian village of Standing Peachtree. It joined the Shallowford Trail near this spot linking it with trade routes to Stone Mountain. Later becoming a road it was among the first authorized when DeKalb County was . . . — — Map (db m9923) HM
The Albany Movement began here, at Shiloh Baptist Church, in November 1961. A coalition of black improvement associations and student activists from SNCC and Albany State College, the protest group set an unprecedented goal: the desegregation of an . . . — — Map (db m117148) HM
St. Teresa's Church was constructed in 1859-1860, on land given by Col. Nelson Tift, founder of Albany. It is the oldest church building in Albany and the oldest Catholic church in Georgia still in use. The bricks were handmade by laborers on the . . . — — Map (db m172726) HM
Ben Johnson and his wife, "Miss Ellie," attended the DuBose Methodist Church located six miles away until they were caught in a rainstorm that frightened
their horse. In an attempt to get a church nearer home, Ben Johnson and Dick Mock rode . . . — — Map (db m14830) HM
The Hilton Methodist Episcopal Church, South was organized in 1850. The first church was erected one mile southwest of Hilton on the Lower River Road. This structure was sold after the Civil War and services were then conducted in an arbor. E. . . . — — Map (db m47839) HM
The school was established prior to 1879 and consolidated with Hilton School in 1925. It served as a Free Will Baptist Bible School for young ministers from 1930-1942. Reverend T. B. Mellette was the instructor and Reverend K. V. Shutes was . . . — — Map (db m47219) HM
About 200 yards West, on this Road, is Wayfare or Cow Creek Baptist Church. The church was constituted in 1847, and the first annual meeting was held in September of that year. The members were: John Roberts, Sr., Edmund Mathis, Unity Mathis, Harvey . . . — — Map (db m27037) HM
Soon after 1767, the Rev. Benjamin Stirk, who had been baptized at the Orphan House, visited Tuckasee King and, finding a number of Baptists there, began to preach to them. As there was then no Baptist Church in Georgia, an arm of the church at . . . — — Map (db m7537) HM
[Marker's East face]:
To the Memory of the
Salzburgers
and
their faithful pastors.
Rev. John Martin Bolzius
and
Rev. Israel Christain Gronau
who for their faith in the doctrines
of Gods Word as taught
in . . . — — Map (db m14739) HM
Goshen Church was built about 1751. It was served by the early pastors of the Salzburgers, and later for a short time by the Moravian missionaries. The church remained a part of the Ebenezer Charge until after the Revolutionary War.
In 1820, the . . . — — Map (db m7961) HM
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