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Sardis Baptist Church (Union Springs, Alabama)

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Sardis School, a community school, was located on the church property across the highway from the church on the corner of Highway 223 and County Road 22. Newspaper articles indicate the school was operating in 1861 and 1870. The old Sardis School building was subsequently moved east on County Road 22
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Relatively unaltered since construction, its four columns support a full entablature and low-pitched roof. Each of the two primary entrances have double-paneled doors trimmed with unadorned molding, and each side of the building has four tall, shuttered, 18-light windows.
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community during the early years. As the need arose for more space, William Andrew Martin and his wife, Nancy Strom Martin, who had bought the adjoining land from the Doziers in 1860, allowed the church to extend the cemetery southward onto their property.
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The church ultimately became inactive in the 1950s. The building was renovated and repaired in 1940-41 and then again in 1992–93.
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Settlers from the Edgefield District, South Carolina, organized the Sardis Baptist Church on June 10, 1837. The first building, a
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bears the name of Moses E. Martin, died May 18, 1848. Part of the cemetery near the church served the
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where it became, as it remains today, the living room of the Livingston Paulk home.
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Lodge No. 169 was located just north of the church property.
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Sardis Baptist Church (Union Springs, Alabama) is located in Alabama
Sardis Baptist Church (Union Springs, Alabama) is located in the United States
Union Springs, Alabama
32°5′18″N 85°45′44″W / 32.08833°N 85.76222°W / 32.08833; -85.76222
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Union Springs
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