United States, Georgia, Floyd County, Mount Berry, 34.27509, -85.18328Owens, Hubert B.1961-08Located at: Berry College, Mount Berry, Ga.Wood frame church on a stone foundation, featuring an open bell tower with pyramidal roof. The church roof has wood shingles and a small brick chimney. The church was built around 1850 and used by Martha Berry as the Possum Trot Sunday School in 1900. Possum Trot was a school until 1854. Berry painted scriptures on the walls to compensate for the lack of Bibles. Three rustic school rooms were added in the 1930s, and the grammar grades were moved there from the log-cabin area on the main campus. In 1976, one of the classrooms was renovated by the Berry College Student Government Association as a Mountain Day American Bicentennial project. From 1984 to 1986, the Student Government Association assisted with volunteer work the full restoration of the buildings. Behind the church is a small log house that once served as the home-economics department and as the kitchen and dining hall for Possum Trot School. It had fallen into disrepair and was restored by an Industrial Education student, Robert Plank, in exchange for its use as a residence until he graduated. After his graduation in 1976, the cottage became staff housing. For more information see Dickey, Ouida W., ed. Berry Trails: an Historic and Contemporary Guide to Berry College. Mount Berry, Ga.: Berry College, c2001, p. 66.Slide annotated: "Possum Trot School, Berry Schools."Date of structure: 1850.image/jpeghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Vernacular architectureWood (plant material)StoneRockBrickChurchesReligious buildingsRural schoolsSchoolsCollegesArchitecture--Georgia--Mount BerryArchitecture--Georgia--Floyd CountyPossum Trot Church (Berry College)StillImage