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BRICK (BETHEL) CHURCH
On Dec. 5, 1827 the Rev. Peyton
L. Wade conveyed to John Green, John H. Smith, Robert W. Lovett,
Richard Herringtom, Sr., Jacob Lewis, Elijah Roberts and John
H. Nessmith, Trustees, two and three quarter acres of land on
which to build a Methodist Episcopal Church to be known as "Brick
Church." Construction was started immediately. The building
now on the site is the original. "Brick Church" was
a successor to Lessing's Meeting House, a log building, on nearby
Rocky Creek at Scott's Spring. Rev. John Crawford, who died in
1822, was the founder of Methodism in this community. His widow,
Sarah Maner Crawford, married the Rev. Wade in 1823.
124-20 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1956
© Carl Vinson Institute of Government,
University of Georgia
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