Old Church

Old Church is a Georgia historical marker in Burke County.

On Old Church Rd. in Waynesboro.

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On this site Old Church was built during Revolutionary times. When St. George's Parish, now Burke County, was created in 1758, a glebe of 47 acres was granted for this Anglican Church, known as St. George´s. When Waynesboro became the county seat in 1812, a proposal to use the timbers from Old Church for erecting a Court House was averted by a lawyer, Allen, who quoted, "My house shall be called a house of prayer, but ye have made it into a den of thieves." After 1830, for many years, it was a Methodist Church. Taken over and restored by the American Legion about 1930, Old Church was destroyed by fire in 1934.

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Historical maps covering this location

1755 · (Canada, Louisiane et Terres Angloises. Southeast section) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1764 · Carte de la Nouvelle Georgie (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1776 · A General Map of the Southern British Colonies, in America. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1778 · Parte Orientale della Florida, della Giorgia, e Carolina Meridionale. Fogl. XI (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1795 · State of South Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Carte de la Nouvelle Georgie, 1764, covering the location of Old Church, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Carte de la Nouvelle Georgie, 1764, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Old Church

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