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Source: Located at the intersection of County Roads 160 and 153 at the Vilulah Baptist Church in Coleman, Ga.
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Vilulah Settlement State Historical Marker

VILULAH SETTLEMENT

This marker is erected in memory of those pioneer settlers who laid the 
foundation of Vilulah Community and built its early progress upon the 
principles and practices of its Church.

Meeting under a bush-arbor in 1867, seventeen members constituted the Vilulah 
Baptist Church. They named it after the loved hymn-tune -- Vilulia in the old 
Sacred Harp Song Book -- afterward shortening the name to its present spelling.

Land was given for the church by "Uncle Bobby" Knowles. The committee appointed 
to choose the church name were James N. Bigbie, who lost an arm while serving 
with the U.S. Army in the Mexican War, and Captain William Forsythe Davis of 
the Confederate Army. These and the following were honored founders of Vilulah 
Community: Albert Bailey, who gave land for the school, Jarrett Ragan, Abner 
Belcher, Judge Irvine Saunders, Baal Smith, Dr. Thomas Bigbie, A.S.A. McLendon, 
Alexander Morgan, Andrew Blackburn, Benjamin Joiner.

This roadside park was sponsored by the Vilulah Community Improvement Club, 
Winner of awards in the Chattahoochee Valley Contests of 1952-1953.
 
120-6 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1955


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