Schley County GaArchives Photo Place.....Mt. Zion Lutheran Church Historic Marker 
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Laura Robinson lrvj2571@yahoo.com September 30, 2005, 12:07 am

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MT. ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH
Authorized as a Lutheran society by Pastor John D. Scheck in 1836, the church 
which came to be located here received its first pastor with the arrival of 
Pastor Jacob Kleckley in 1838.  The initial worship site :  Ebenezer was 
located on property of John F. Robinson.  A second site was used on property 
of John F. Coogle before the church renamed itself "Mt. Zion" and moved to 
this site about 1858.  Lutherans regularly worshiped here until a merger with 
St. Luke in Oglethorpe on 1 November 1953.  The church building was razed here 
in 1986, but annual homecomings continue here by members of Mt. Zion-St. Luke 
Lutheran church which cares for this cemetery.  This marker is erected with 
funds given in memory of Miss Minnie Lou Hammock and sanctioned by the Macon 
County Historical Society.

Homecoming 1994. 

Additional Comments:
This former church site is in Macon Co. near the Schley/Macon line and the 
cemetery has some surnames synonomous with Schley Co.

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