Jones County GaArchives Photo Place.....Clinton Methodist Church Historical Marker April 18, 2005
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James Allen jallen@co.bibb.ga.us April 22, 2005, 2:30 pm

Source:             Clinton Methodist Church Historical Sign
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The inscription on the historical marker is as follows:

This is the first Methodist church and the second church established in Jones 
County.  Land was appropriated in 1810 and July 14, 1821 a deed to the Clinton 
Methodists was made effective.  The church was "a frame house of good 
dimensions with substantial stone steps of native granite."  A gallery for 
slaves was removed in 1897.  The chandelier and brass wall brackets originally 
held kerosene lamps.  This church was among the first to organize a foreign 
missionary society.  Among the early pastors were Dr. Lovick Pierce and Rev. 
James Payne, 1836.


Georgia Historical Commission

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