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Kimble-Crawley-Davis House-Madison, Georgia

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The Kimble-Crawley-Davis House used to be located in Rutledge, Georgia. Once located on Old Mill Road in Rutledge, this plantation plain was moved due to land being purchased for the Rivian manufacturing plant.

The home is essentially two homes that were out together. The Kimble family built a one-room house in 1911. The Crawley family built the two-story I house in 1829. John Morgan Davis moved the one-room home to join the two-story house in 1879.

Excellent 3-D sketches were made before the move which can be seen here.

-Georgia, Black History, Churches and Temples, National Register of Historic Places

Moses Chapel AME Chuch-Rutledge, Georgia

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Moses Chapel AME Church was built in 1877 during a time when AME church congregations were popping up all across the country, especially in the South. Prior to the end of the Civil War, most congregations were in the North and Midwest, but as the Confederacy fell, newly freed Black men and women sought to start new churches. By 1880, there were almost 400,000 members of the AME church.

-Georgia, Black History, Churches and Temples, Schools

Wallace Grove Baptist Church and School-Rutledge, Georgia

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Morgan County

Opened in 1902, the Wallace Grove Church and School were built after land was donated by W. P. Wallace in 1901. (My assumption is that this is William Pierce Wallace, who was a local banker and merchant in the area.) The one-room schoolhouse was used until the 1960s to educate Black schoolchildren.

The school fell into disrepair. In 2011, the congregation came together to restore the school. According to Tommy Chatman, he and his staff led the restoration process. The school was fully restored in under a year. It is the only extant turn-of-the-century schoolhouse still standing in its original location.

Source: Wallace Grove Board Info with Madison Morgan Conservancy
“Henry B” engraved onto an outside wall of the school