#152 Mulberry Street Methodist Church-Macon Georgia
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Sprinterman
N 32° 50.358 W 083° 37.782
17S E 253864 N 3636536
Quick Description: Mulberry and First Streets, Macon
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 10/12/2009 5:01:18 PM
Waymark Code: WM7E47
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Long Description:From the Georgia Historic Marker in front of the church:
This church, organized in 1826, is on land deeded to it by the
Georgia Legislature in the same year. In 1828, the first church
building in Macon was erected on this site. the first appointed
pastor was Thomas Darley who had been ordained by bishop Francis
Asbury.
Becasue the Georgia Conference was organized on this site in
1831 the church is known as the MOther Church of Georgia Methodism.
Originally known as the Macon Church, the name was changed in 1847,
to Mulberry Street Church. the Reverned G.N.N. McDonnell founded
the pioneer Women´s Missionary Society in South Georgia on this
site in 1878.
The last meeting of the South Georgia Conference of the
Methodist Episcopla Chourch, South, was held here in 1939 and was
immediately follwed by the first meeting of the South Georgia
Conference of the Methodist Church. In 1968, the first meeting
after union with Evangelical United Bretheren was held here.
Former pastors elevated to the Episcopacy include George Foster
Pierce, Oscar Penn Fitzgerald, Joseph Stanton Key, William Newman
Ashworth, Frank Lewis Robertson and Charles Welboourne Hancock.
The monument with the plaque says this church is the Mother
Church of Georgia Methodism.