The Abandoned Young’s Chapel Baptist Church in Wilkes County, Georgia

While this church sits abandoned in the woods, a newer church is on the property. The congregation was established in 1885, and tax records indicate the church was built in the same year.

Based on the death certificates on a findagrave and the obituaries I located, this is a historic Black congregation.

The view through the doorway. The floor seemed too unstable to step inside.
Notice the rock piers used here.
Several headstones can be seen in the overgrowth.

Below are three of the obituaries I located online at the Atlanta Constitution.

Cox Brothers was a Black-owned funeral home in Atlanta.

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