First Ebenezer Baptist Church-GHS 121-7-Richmond Co
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N 33° 19.299 W 082° 05.714
17S E 398058 N 3687481
Ebeneezer Rd. at Windsor Spring Rd. north of Hepzibah
Waymark Code: WM7AFT
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/27/2009
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This congregation began when a handful of slaves gathered for services on the Rhodes Plantation in August 1812. In 1851 Absalom A. Rhodes sold a quarter acre of land here for two dollars to the deacon board of Ebenezer Baptist Church. The fifty-six-member congregation joined the Georgia Baptist Association in 1867. First Ebenezer´s leadership in the Association was paramount in forming the Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia, the first African-American convention. Two new congregations have sprung from First Ebenezer: Second Ebenezer Baptist Church and Spring Grove Baptist Church.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 121-7
Date: 2003.9
Sponsor: GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND FIRST EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH
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