Historic rural churches of Georgia / Sonny Seals and George S. Hart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seals, Sonny, 1942- author.

Hart, George, 1942- author.

Series:

Publications (Wormsloe Foundation)

A Wormsloe Foundation publication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church buildings--Georgia.

Church buildings.

Historic buildings--Georgia.

Historic buildings.

Rural churches--Georgia.

Rural churches.

Church history.

Georgia--Church history.

Georgia.

Genre:

Church history.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 388 pages ; 32 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press published in association with Georgia Humanities, [2016]

Summary:

Aspects of Georgia's unique history can only be told through its extant rural churches. As the Georgia backcountry rapidly expanded in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the churches erected on this newly parceled land became the center of community life. These early structures ranged from primitive outbuildings to those with more elaborate designs and were constructed with local, hand-hewn materials to serve the residents who lived nearby. From these rural communities sprang the villages, towns, counties, and cities that informed the way Georgia was organized and governed and that continue to influence the way we live today. Historic Rural Churches of Georgia presents forty-seven early houses of worship from all areas of the state. Nearly three hundred stunning color photographs capture the simple elegance of these sanctuaries and their surrounding grounds and cemetaries. Of the historic churches that have survived, many are now in various states of distress and neglect and require restoration to ensure that they will continue to stand. This book is a project of the Historic Rural Churches of Georgia organization, whose mission is the preservation of historic rural churches across the state and the documentation of their history since their founding. If proper care is taken, these endangered and important landmarks can continue to represent the state's earliest examples of rural sacred architecture and the communities and traditions they housed. -- from dust jacket.

Contents:

Banks County: Hebron Presbyterian

Banks County: Mt. Olivet Methodist

Ben Hill County: Young's Chapel Methodist

Brantley County: High Bluff Primitive Baptist

Brooks County: Liberty Baptist

Brooks County: Bethlehem Primitive Baptist

Burke County: Bark Camp Baptist

Camden County: First Presbyterian of St. Mary's

Chattooga County: Alpine Presbyterian

Cherokee County: Fields Chapel United Methodist

Columbia County: Kiokee Baptist

Effingham County: Jerusalem Lutheran

Floyd County: Sardis Presbyterian

Franklin County: Carroll's Methodist

Greene County: Bethesda Baptist

Greene County: Penfield Baptist

Habersham County: Grace-Calvary Episcopal

Hancock County: Powelton Baptist

Hancock County: Powelton Methodist

Hancock County: St. Paul CME

Jackson County: Apple Valley Baptist

Jackson County: Thyatira Presbyterian

Jasper County: Concord Primitive Baptist

Jenkins County: Big Buckhead Baptist

Jenkins County: Carswell Grove Baptist

Jones County: Clinton Methodist

Liberty County: Midway Congregational

McDuffie County: Wrightsboro Methodist

McIntosh County: Sapelo First African Baptist

McIntosh County: St. Cyprian's Episcopal

Mitchell County: Mt. Enon Baptist

Oglethorpe County: Beth Salem Presbyterian

Oglethorpe County: Philomath Presbyterian

Polk County: Van Wert Methodist

Randolph County: Benevolence Baptist

Stewart County: Antioch Primitive Baptist

Sumter County: Plains Baptist

Sumter County: St. Mark's Lutheran

Taliaferro County: Antioch Baptist

Taliaferro County: Locust Grove Catholic

Walker County: Cove Methodist

Ware County: Ezekiel New Congregational Methodist

Ware County: Old Ruskin

Warren County: Barnett Methodist

Warren County: Fountain Campground

White County: Crescent Hill Baptist

Wilkes County: Friendship Baptist.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780820349350

0820349356

OCLC:

928023671