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McCanaan Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery

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In its NRHP nomination, the church was deemed significant architecturally as "an excellent example of a rural African-American church with a cemetery" in Georgia, having characteristics identified as typical for the type. It is a wood framed simple building with a church tower and a modest amount of
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The c.1875 church was replaced in the 1890s and the church was again rebuilt in 1912. In the early 1900s a school was built behind the church which served grades one through six. The property has a cemetery that was started in the 1930s, next to the church, after burials at a church-associated
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A history of the church at its 121st anniversary was written by church member Evelyn Williams in 1996. With assistance of Anne Floyd, a historic preservation planner, Williams completed an information form about the property for submission to Georgia's Historic Preservation Division, leading
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original cemetery on Millhaven Plantation (about 4.5 miles away, to the southeast) were ceased. The cemetery has "simple granite markers". Baptisms associated with the church took place in Brier Creek, about one mile to the north.
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The church was organized in 1875 by Rev. Frank Cooper, and a small church was built on the current church's site. Its membership included sharecroppers at the
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Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
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Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Burke County, Georgia
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eventually to the listing of the property on the NRHP in 2001.
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

McCanaan Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery is located in Georgia
Sardis, Georgia
32°59′3″N 81°42′8″W / 32.98417°N 81.70222°W / 32.98417; -81.70222
Gothic Revival
01000643
Sardis, Georgia
Burke County, Georgia
Screven County, Georgia
National Register of Historic Places
Millhaven Plantation
Screven County, Georgia
Gothic Revival
Millhaven Plantation
National Register of Historic Places listings in Burke County, Georgia


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service




"National Register of Historic Places Registration: McCanaan Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery / First McCanaan Baptist Church"
National Park Service
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"McCaanan Missionary Baptist (Org 1875)"
"African American Churches Listed in the National Register of Historic Places"

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