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Brown Grove CME Church
Christian Methodist Episcopal Churches
aka Colored Methodist Episcopal
Milledgeville & Baldwin County, Ga.
Name Location Established Notes* Cemeteries
Brown Grove CME Brown's Crossing 1871* Used 2 bldgs. since the organization. First settled clergyman  Rev. Gideion Hill.  Cemetery (link)
Hicks Mission CME was located on Log Cabin Rd there in 1910  sat in front of Hicks Cemetery  Cemetery (link)
Lees Chapel CME 943 W. Thomas St - -
Mount Hope CME 453 Hwy 49 W 1884 Always worshiped in the present bldg. that was erected & dedicated in 1884 Cemetery (link)
Oak Grove Southern CME 508 Hwy 49 W - - -
Scott's Chapel CME 646 Gordon Hwy. - - -
Trinity CME 321 N. Wilkinson St. 1860* First service held in frame bldg which was erected in 1860 and located in Memory Hill Cemetery.  It was used until present brick bldg. was erected & dedicated in 1921. Church has a bell.  The old church was torn down in 1922. -
*Source: WPA Church Records, Baldwin County,  Black Churches, 9/19/1939, Georgia Archives
 
 


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