- Historic Utoy Church State Historical
Marker
- Located at the cemetery on Cahaba Dr. just off Venetian
Dr. in Atlanta, Ga.
(Text)
HISTORIC UTOY CHURCH
Utoy Primitive Baptist Church,
the oldest Baptist Church in present Fulton County, was constituted
August 15, 1824, in a log house just west of here. The church
was moved to its present location in the summer of 1828.
In 1864 the church was used as
a Confederate hospital. July 22, Col. James S. Boynton, 30th
Georgia, was wounded and brought to Utoy Church for medical care.
Boynton later became President of the Georgia Senate and on March
5, 1883, the day after the death of Governor Alexander H. Stephens,
he became of Governor of Georgia, to serve until a special election
could be held.
In the cemetery at Utoy Church
lies buried Dr. Joshua Gilbert, Atlanta's first doctor. Born
in 1815 in South Carolina, Dr. Gilbert was graduated from old
Augusta Medical College in 1845 and came to Atlanta. At that
time Atlanta was called Marthasville and was located in DeKalb
County. Here he practiced medicine until his death in 1889.
060-192 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1961
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