Georgia, Houses

Foy-Hodges House-Manassas, Georgia

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Tattnall County
Located in Manassas, Georgia, this large home is located just off downtown. The Foy family built this Folk Victorian in the 1890s. The town Manassas was named after its founder Manassas Foy. If you’re ever in the area, it’s worth it to see the house from the road.
Abandoned, Black History, Churches, Georgia, National Register of Historic Places, Schools

Needwood Baptist Church and School-Brunswick, Georgia

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Founded in 1866 by freedmen and women on Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation as Broadfield Baptist Church. The structure was built in the 1870s and was redesigned when the congregation moved to its current location in 1885. At the time of the move, the congregation changed its name to Needwood Baptist Church. The one-room school was built in 1907 and used until the state of Georgia began school consolidation in the 1950s.

It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

Black History, Georgia, Rosenwald Schools, Schools

Kinlaw Rosenwald School-Kinlaw, Georgia

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Camden County

In celebration of its 100th year, descendants of students who attended Kinlaw Rosenwald School are restoring this 3-teacher type school. Once the restoration is complete, this school will serve the Kinlaw community for years to come.

When I visited with my friend, Brian, we were lucky enough to meet one of the men helping go restore the building, Marshall Glover. You can read more about the school and donate money by visiting the school’s site.

Black History, Cemeteries, Churches, Georgia, Vernacular Headstones

Rising Daughter Baptist Church-Camden County, Georgia

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Located in Camden County, Georgia, Rising Daughter Baptist Church, the cemetery is filled with a mixture of vernacular and commercial headstones. I am uncertain of the age of the church and cemetery, but based on headstones I would the age the congregation to be from the 1910s.

This is one of the Madonna markers, my friend Brian and I located in three different cemeteries. A full post about these markers are located here.

These markers show a repeated motif of the loops. If these marks are called something else, please let me know.

Harold and Thelma Swain were murdered inside the church. Their case remains unsolved after DNA evidence exonerated the man who initially went to jail. There is a new suspect in the case. For more information, their story can be read here.