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Photo Gallery: Old Stone Presbyterian Church
Marker text:
This church, organized September 2, 1837, before the Cherokee
Indians were removed from this area, was the first church organized by white
settlers in the bounds of the present Catoosa County, according to available
records. The organizers were a group of Scotch Irish Presbyterians from
Tennessee or the Carolinas and the Charter Members were: Robert Magill,
James H. McSpadden, Robert C. Cain, Sarah Black, Alfred McSpadden, Fanny
Magill, Susan McSpadden, Winifred Cain, Margaret Cain and Nancy Tipton. This
building, of sandstone quarried nearby, was erected in 1850 and following
the Battle of Ringgold, November 27, 1863, was used as a hospital. Blood
stains are still visible on the floor. It remained a Presbyterian church
until about 1920 when it was sold to a Methodist congregation which
maintained it for some years. It then passed into private hands and to save
it from destruction a group of descendants of the early members raised a
fund and purchased it, deeding it to a board of trustees to be used for
religious purposes. In recent years it has been used by various
denominations.
023-9 Georgia Historical Commission 1955
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