Site of Sam Jones' Tabernacle

Site of Sam Jones' Tabernacle is a Georgia historical marker in Bartow County, dedicated 1953.

Located at the intersection of West Main Street and School Street.

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For 20 years, thousands came annually to this site, attracted by the magnetic personality and forceful eloquence of Sam Jones, renowned Evangelist and Christian crusader. Here he built, in 1886, at his own expense, a large open-air structure, called "The Tabernacle," for the inter-faith meetings begun in 1884. Until his death in 1906, he held services here each September, bringing to his hometown the co-workers who assisted him in the great revivals he held throughout the country.

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Historical maps covering this location

1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1890 · Cartersville, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Atlanta Campaign 3rd epoch. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1896 · Cartersville, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1906 · Stilesboro, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Stilesboro, Georgia, 1906, covering the location of Site of Sam Jones' Tabernacle, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Stilesboro, Georgia, 1906, covering this location. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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