Stewart County GaArchives Photo Place.....Providence Chapel Histioral Marker October 29, 2005
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Providence Chapel  
                      Marker one

 The first Christian Church in Georgia was
Constituted at this site in 1837. Services were 
held early in the 1830’s by Rev. George Lynch
Smith, firstunder a brush arbor and later in 
The log schoolhouse. This building, then two-
story, was erected in 1857 under the pastorate 
of Rev. Smith’s son, Dr. Jubilee Smith, pastor 
until 1895. The second story was used by the 
Smith Lodge No. 233 Masons from its organ-
Ization in 1858. First officers were Dr. Smith, 
Jonathan Bridges, J.B. Oxford, Y.F. Wright, 
Jeptha Whorton, C.W. Matthews, T.M. Fain, 
Berry Pike. Co I, 17th Ga. Inf. was organized 
here August 15, 1861 by Capt. Jubilee Smith 
and drilled nearby. 



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