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Rev. David Lowe Historical Marker
- Rev. David Walker Lowe Historical
Marker
- Located just inside entrance to Providence Canyon
State Park on Ga. 39 Connector
(Text)
- REV. DAVID WALKER LOWE
Near this place Rev. David Walker
Lowe built a home for his wife Jane Dorsey not long after 1825.
He had been a Methodist circuit rider in the S.C. conference,
later in the Ga. conference. Born July 22, 1794 in Warren Co.,
Ga., he was organizer and charter member of the Providence Methodist
Church, built on the south side of the Lumpkin-Florence Road.
he donated land on which the first church and schoolhouse were
built. The land now lies between two of the canyons. The present
Methodist church was built about 1859. Rev. Lowe died Sept. 23,
1843 and with his wife is buried in the Lowe cemetery near the
edge of the canyon.
- [No information on date
or sponsor of marker]
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- © Carl Vinson Institute of Government,
University of Georgia
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