- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of a First Baptist Church burning, Gainesville, Hall County, Georgia, 1960 Feb. 12]
- Date of Original:
- 1960
- Subject:
- Church buildings--Georgia--Gainesville
Fires--Georgia--Gainesville
Architecture--Georgia--Gainesville
Disasters--Georgia--Gainesville
Gainesville (Ga.)--Religion - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Hall County, Gainesville, 34.29788, -83.82407
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Gainesville, Feb. 12, 1960. Photographers were on hand to record the burning of the First Baptist Church located at the corner of Green and Washington Streets. The church had been dedicated in 1909. The damage was said to have been put at $600,000. After the fire, Warren Castle purchased the columns and let Brevard Williams put them in his pasture located north of Dillard, Ga. in Rabun County. They mark the line between Georgia and North Carolina.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_hal294
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:hal294
- Additional Rights Information:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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