UPSON COUNTY, GA - HISTORY Shiloh Baptist Church Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Upson Historical Society Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Printed in Upson Historical Society Newsletters: 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.