UPSON COUNTY, GA - HISTORY  Shiloh Baptist Church

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October 1997


 SHILOH BAPTIST
CHURCH IN SESQUICENTENNIAL

Shiloh Baptist Church, located on Highway 19 North will observe
its Sesquicentennial on Sunday October 28, beginning at 10:00 a.m.
The public is invited.

Organized on October 25, 1847, the church's first pastor was the
Reverend Jacob King.

Shiloh's mother church, Bethesda, now Thomaston First Baptist,
then "kept house for God" at a location on the Bamesville Road.
The spring had failed and a number of the members wanted Bethesda
to relocate to a building which they already owned in Thomaston.
They agreed to a friendly division. Fourteen became charter
members.

Shiloh church's annual singing is the oldest continuous event in
the county, started on July 4, 1865.

The structure, built in 1827 at Bethesda, served Shiloh from
1847, when it was moved, until 1944. It was then replaced by a
brick structure which also provided educational sptice. Timbers
from the old church were used in the new one. The brick building
burned in 1961, destroying the last remnants of the original
building. Shiloh's present church, its third, was occupied during
1962.