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Needwood Baptist Church State Historical Marker
- Needwood Baptist Church State
Historical Marker
- Located at on U.S. 17, one mile south of Hofwyle-Broadfield
Plantation, Glynn County, Ga.
(text)
NEEDWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH
AND NEEDWOOD SCHOOL
Needwood Baptist Church was organized
in 1866 on nearby Broadfield Plantation as Broadfield Baptist
Church of the Zion Baptist Association. This structure, built
in the 1870s, was redesigned in 1885 when the church moved its
congregation here. Its formation and history are representative
of religious development in the context of plantation rice culture.
The nearby one-room Needwood School provided elementary education
for this community from 1907 until desegregation in the 1960s.
Both structures are examples of early African-American vernacular
architecture.
- Erected by the The Georgia
Historical Society and the Pilot Club of Brunswick, Inc.
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