Upper Black Creek Church-UBCC-Bulloch Co - Georgia Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

This is a two sided marker.

Text of side 1:

Upper Black Creek Church

Upper Black Creek met each month on the third Sunday and Saturday
Before from the time she was organized in 1802 until the Church
elected to meet every Sunday in 1957. Conference was every month
on those Saturdays, and Upper Black Creek received new members only during regular conferences. Baptisms were held in Big Black
Creek or millponds. Church discipline was serious and certain; The
most common infractions were non-attendance, drunkenness and
unchristian conduct. Forgiveness was frequent, and only the
unrepentant were turned out of the church. Multiple ministers
usually preached in the services on Saturday afternoon and Sunday
morning, and services often lasted for several hours. The
church's first pastor, Isham Peacock was ordained in the same
service in which Upper Black Creek was constituted. The presbytery
cosisted of Henry Hocombe, John Goldwire and Henry Cook. Other pastors were: John Albritton, Nathaniel Melton, Matthew Abritton,
Henry Melton, Robert Donaldson, James Denmark William M. Grooover Sr.,
Willam S. Moore, John G. Williams, Millard F. Stubbs and James L.
Smith. Earliest members included: James & Mary Bennett, William
& Sophia Bragg, James and Nancy Denmark, David and Jane Goodman,
Thomas and Martha Jones, George & Cynthia Lewis, Jordan & Sarah
Lewis, Abraham & Ann Roberts and William & Mary Woodcock.
Upper Black Creek was built on Rebel Road, a colonial highway dating
from the 1780's. A major commercial artery, it became known as
Mud Road in the early 1800s because continuous wagon and cattle
traffic and its several stream crossings kept the road continuously
wet and muddy.
(Continued on other side)

Side Two text:

Upper Black Creek Church
(Continued from other side)

Upper Black Creek is one of the true pioneer churches of Wiregrass
Georgia. The church was constituted on August 15, 1802 and was
an evangelical outpost in the frontier wilderness. The church was
a member of the Savannah River and later the Sunbury and Hephzibah
Baptist Associations. From her members sprang a line of great Baptist
Evangelists including Isham Peacock,John Albritton, Matthew Albritton
Henry Melton, Jesse Goodman, Ryan Friar, William M, Groover, Sr. and
Millard F. Stubbs. Some of the Baptist Churches which came out of
her include Lower Black Creek (Bryan), Beards Creek (Tattnall),
Poplar Springs(Laurens), Union(Lanier), Lanes, DeLoach,Old Fellowship
New Hope-colored, Statesboro, Middleground and Red Hill (All
Bulloch). Upper Black Creek was eminent in the movement opposed
to corporate Missionism and sent Willeam Groover and Malachi Denmark
to the 1829 Limestone Convention in Washington County at which the
Canoochee Primative Baptist Association was organized. This Conven-
tion also came to define the Primitive Baptists in Georgia.
The first church meeting-house was a frontier log structure erected
in early 1803 on the south side of Mud Road by David Goodman.
His grandson, John Goodman erected the first sawn-lumber public
building in Bulloch County as a new meeting-house for Upper Black
Creek on the present site in 1835. That building was damaged beyond
repair in the Hurricane of 1884, and the new church that was built
in 1885 was replaced with a modern sanctuary in 1973.

Type of Marker: Highway Marker #: None Date: None Sponsor: Upper Black Creek Church

Visit Instructions:
Take a picture of the marker, yourself at the marker, your gps at the marker, or anything specific to the text on the marker. And don't forget to enjoy your visit.

Recent Visits/Logs:

Date Logged Log User Rating   11/29/2009 Sprinterman visited it