New Hope, Glynn County GA
Portions of this church were originally built by freed slaves on the Broadfield Rice Plantation (now known as Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation) where it was initially the Broadfield Baptist Church, in the late 1870s, and it was moved here and redesigned in its present state in 1885. It is now considered one of the better examples of African-American vernacular church arcitecture remaining in Georgia.
Tags: Needwood Community GA Glynn County US Highway 17 Coastal Highway Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation Freed Slaves African-American Vernacular Architecture Landmark Historic Pictures Photo Copyright Brian Brown Vanishing South Georgia USA 2010 Broadfield Baptist Church Zion Baptist Association New Hope Rice Plantation Culture Similar to Sprott Church AL
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New Hope, Glynn County GA
This well-preserved African-American vernacular schoolhouse, next door to the Needwood Baptist Church, served the needs of local blacks from 1907 until the late 1950s.
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Ben Hill County GA
From William Faulkner, Light in August, New York, 1932. "Memory believes before knowing remembers..."
Tags: Tar Paper House Ben Hill County GA Rural Southern Decay Vernacular Architecture, Sharecropper, Sharecropping, Tenant, Farmhouse, Pictures, Photo, Copyright Brian Brown, Vanishing South Georgia USA 2010 Photographic Photographers Interpretation of Novel Title American Classic Southern Classic
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Harmony Free Will Baptist Church
Miller, Union County FL.
This is sometimes referred to as Blair, or Miller Church, but a local gentleman (possibly the landowner) told me today that it was the old Harmony Free Will Baptist Church...there is a more modern building just around the corner where the congregation meets these days. Notice the post behind the church; it's literrally holding up the structure at this time.
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Ben Hill County GA
Tags: Ben Hill County GA Georgia Tar Paper House Old Abandoned Rural Southern Decay False Brick Siding Tenant Sharecropper Pictures Photo Copyright Brian Brown Vanishing South Georgia USA 2010 Cross Process
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