September 7, 2014 · 6:51 pm
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Sardis Baptist Church, 1859, Chattoogaville

Sardis Baptist Church Antebellum Landmark Chattoogaville Lylerly GA Chattooga County Photograph Copyright Brian Brown Vanishing North Georgia USA 2014

This historic and still-active congregation dates to 1835. The present structure dates to 1859; it was restored in 1942. It’s near the community of Chattoogaville but has a Lyerly address.

National Register of Historic Places

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3 responses to “Sardis Baptist Church, 1859, Chattoogaville”

  1. Lynn Winters
    September 7, 2014 at 7:36 pm

    Are there two front doors? Why?

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    • Lynn Pollard
      May 23, 2016 at 2:26 pm

      Back then, the women sat on one side of the church and the men sat on the other. They had their own entrances.

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  2. Agnes Conway
    May 31, 2015 at 5:35 pm

    My Great Grandfather, Rev. Thaddeus Constantine Crawford was Pastor at Sardis Presbyterian Church for 38 years beginning in 1846 or 1847

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