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Providence Chapel Historical Marker
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Photo: David Seibert
- Providence Chapel State Historical
Marker
- Located on Old US 280 north of Richland at Red Hill
32.14171666, -84.68583333
(Text)
- PROVIDENCE CHAPEL
The first Christian Church in Georgia
was constituted at this site in 1837. Services were held early
in the 1830's by Rev. George Lynch Smith, first under a brush
arbor and later in the log schoolhouse. This building, then two-story,
was erected in 1857 under the pastorate of Rev. Smith's son,
Dr. Jubilee Smith, pastor until 1895. The second story was used
by the smith Lodge No. 233 Masons from its organization in 1858.
First officers were Dr. Smith, Jonathan Bridges, J.B. Oxford,
Y.F. Wright, Jeptha Whorton, C.W. Matthews, T.M. Fain, Berry
Pike. Co. I, 17th Ga. Inf. was organized here August 15, 1861
by Capt. Jubilee Smith and drilled nearby
- 128-5 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1957
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