Union Meeting House (Organized 1790)-GHM 016-1-Bulloch Co
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N 32° 32.754 W 081° 43.382
17S E 432112 N 3601177
US 301 7 miles NE of Statesboro at the Old Savannah Road
Waymark Code: WM7ZHR
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 12/29/2009
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Three miles east of this point, on the old River road, is located union Meeting House (Methodist), the oldest church in Bulloch county, and one of the oldest churches in Georgia remaining continuously active since its organization. title was acquired from the State by grant to Joseph Jackson, Jarvis Jackson, Lemuel williams, Griffin Merrill and Joshua Hodges, Trustees, dated September 1, 1794, recorded in Screven County, the land being then a part of that county. Plat made about that time by William Blair, an Irishman, showed the meeting house already located on the land, indicating its earlier origin.
Out of this church and community have come many devout men and women. Among the earlier members was the famed Lydia Anclaux, widow of Col. Nicholas Anclaux, a Frenchman and Revolutionary War hero, whose daughter became wife of Senator McPherson Berrien, Attorney general in President Andrew Jackson´s cabinet. Legend says that Bishop Francis Asbury preached there and Lorenzo Dow also visited and preached there.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 016-1
Date: 1953
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Commission
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