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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DVD_bethel-hill-missionary-baptist-church_Thomaston-AL.html
Following the Civil War and emancipation, newly freed African Americans, who had worshiped in the Bethel Church in McKinley while enslaved, established their own Bethel Church in a wooden house at the rear of the current church site. In the mid-18…
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Constituted June 6, 1821 from the fruits of labor of the venerable Solomon Perkins, For four years after their constitution they enjoyed almost a continual revival. Home of Miss Willie Kelly, a missionary to China from 1894 to 1936. This church wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DVB_history-of-the-town-of-thomaston_Thomaston-AL.html
(side 1)About 1830, settlers from the Carolinas and Virginia came to this area in search of fertile land. They staked their claims to adjoining plantations adjacent to what became Thomaston. In 1890, Dr. Charles Brooks Thomas bought the plantation…