- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Wrightsboro Methodist Church historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--McDuffie County
Church buildings--Georgia--Wrightsboro - Location:
- United States, Georgia, McDuffie County, Wrightsboro, 33.55041, -82.56902
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: At Wrightsboro on Wrightsboro/Stagecoach Rd., 4 mi. W. of U.S. 78
Text of marker: "WRIGHTSBORO METHODIST CHURCH. The Wrightsboro Methodist Church of the Thomson Circuit, on the site of the now dead town of Wrightsboro, has been an active organization for over 125 years. In its historic churchyard are buried several veterans of the Revolutionary War and some who died at Gettysburg, Shiloh and Fredericksburg in the War Between the States. The founders of some of the oldest and most prominent Georgia families are buried here. Among them are Theodosius Erwin Massengale, grandfather of St. Elmo Massengale, and the ancestors of Bishop Warren A. Candler, Judge John S. Candler and Asa G. Candler. 094-6 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1956" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_wrightsboro-methodist-church
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_wrightsboro-methodist-church
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright held by David Seibert. Please contact markers@davidseibert.com about commercial reproduction and use
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
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