Historic Markers Across Georgia



First Baptist Church in Georgia



Marker ID: GHM 036-7
Location: US 221 at Washington Road, at Greenbrier Creek
County: Columbia
Coordinates:   
Waymark: None
 



Text:
Kiokee Church, the first Baptist Church to be constituted ion Georgia, was organized in the Spring of 1772, by Rev. Daniel Marshall, one of the founders of the Baptist denomination in Georgia. A meeting house was built, and the Rev. Daniel Marshall became the first pastor, ministering from his headquarters at Kiokee to an ever increasing number of Baptists in the area.

In October, 1784, the preliminary meeting for the organization of a Georgia Baptist Association was held at Kiokee Church. The Rev. Daniel Marshall died November 2, 1784, and some time later the church was moved to Appling and a new brick edifice erected.

Kiokee Baptist Church was incorporated December 23, 1789, as ´The Anabaptist Church on Kiokee,´ with Abram Marshall, William Willingham, Edmund Cartledge, John Landers, James Simms, Joseph Ray and Lewis Gardner as Trustees.

GHM 036-7 Georgia historical Commission 1956


 

 



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