Title

Mulberry Street Methodist Church Marker, Macon, GA

Creator

George Lansing Taylor Jr., University of North FloridaFollow

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Creation Date

9-3-2011

Building Name

Mulberry Street Methodist Church

Description

Mulberry Street Methodist Church Marker , Macon, GA.

This is located on Mulberry and First Streets, Macon, GA.

The text on the marker reads as :

" This church, organized in 1826, is on land deeded to it by the Georgia Legislature in the same year. In 1828, the first church building in Macon was erected on this site. The first appointed pastor was Thomas Darley who had been ordained by Bishop Francis Asbury. Because the Georgia Conference was organized on this site in 1831 the church is known as the Mother Church of Georgia Methodism. Originally known as the Macon Church, the name was changed in 1847, to Mulberry Street Church. The Reverend G.N.N. McDonnell founded the pioneer Women´s Missionary Society in South Georgia on this site in 1878. The last meeting of the South Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was held here in 1939 and was immediately followed by the first meeting of the South Georgia Conference of the Methodist Church. In 1968, the first meeting after union with Evangelical United Brethren was held here. Former pastors elevated to the Episcopacy include George Foster Pierce, Oscar Penn Fitzgerald, Joseph Stanton Key, William Newman Ashworth, Frank Lewis Robertson and Charles Welboourne Hancock."

Georgia Historical Commission 1992

Latitude, Longitude

32.83900278, -83.62955278

Rights Statement

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/