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By Mike Stroud, January 27, 2008
John Wesley Landing Site Marker (lower inscription)
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| | (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 |
| | 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 |
| Near Abercorn Street at St. Julian Street. |
| | 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 |
| On Abercorn Street at East Saint Julian Street, on the left when traveling south on Abercorn Street. |
| | 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 |
| On Barnard Street near Presidents Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | 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 |
| On Bull Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | 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 |
| On Oglethorpe Avenue at Lincoln Street, on the left when traveling east on Oglethorpe Avenue. |
| | 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 |
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