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Green Grove Missionary Baptist Church Historical Marker
- Green Grove Schoolhouse HCC Historical
Marker (Side 1)
- Located 8 miles SW of Old Eufaula Hwy on Green Grove
Rd. SW in Lumpkin, Ga.
(Text)
- GREEN GROVE MISSIONARY
BAPTIST CHURCH
This church served as the focus
for religious, educational and cultural life of African Americans
in the Green Grove community during the late 19th century and
well into the 20th century. Deacons Perry Hudson, Isaac Shorter
and Lewis Cherry held the first church assembly under a brush
arbor in 1886. The first church building was destroyed by a tornado
c. 1919 and the second house of worship was consumed by a fire
c. 1924. The congregation then moved the church to the present
site, which is three miles south of the original location.
- ERECTED BY THE HISTORIC
CHATTAHOOCHEE COMMISSION
- AND THE FRIENDS OF THE
GREEN GROVE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH,
- SCHOOL AND CEMETERY
COMPLEX
- 2000
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- © Carl Vinson Institute of Government,
University of Georgia
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