Millstone Baptist
Oglethorpe County | Organized in 1788
Millstone Baptist Church had the great good fortune to have been constituted in the Millstone Creek/Goosepond Creek community of Old Wilkes County, which was created in 1777. Oglethorpe County was then created out of Wilkes in 1793. This community had been settled by Virginians that migrated to that section of Georgia on the Broad and Savannah Rivers. This area cradled governors, senators, a territorial governor, an ambassador, a secretary of state, representatives, explorers and generals….. men and women who rose to exceptional heights in the late seventeen hundreds and into the early eighteen hundreds. For this reason, early 19th Century Georgians referred to Oglethorpe County as ‘The Mother of Statesmen‘.
Read more...In January 1788, two giants of the burgeoning Baptist church in Georgia, Rev. Silas Mercer and Rev Jeremiah Walker, helped the people of the community form Millstone Baptist Church. It was placed on seven acres of land that were donated by Martha and Andrew Bell. Its location in such an active community guaranteed that the church would flourish, and it did, well into the 20th Century. The present church building was erected in 1890 and is artfully located in a grove of trees off Millstone Road. Millstone was always known to be a site of plentiful baptisms. The baptismal pool is located down the hill near the creek.
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9 responses to “Millstone Baptist”
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Anyone wanting to know Millstone Church needs to get a book written by Rev. Jack K. McVeigh titled “Millstone Church and The Broad River Valley” it has the history of this church minutes as they were with comments.
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Thanks for sharing this!
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Are there any directions available to the Original Baptismal Pool near the creek
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I had Rainey relatives settle in Oglethorpe County in the early 1800’s. Are there records that show any affiliation with this church?
Thanks!
Mark Rainey
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We don’t have access to Millstone’s church records, so you would need to reach out to them to ask. Best of luck!
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Can you tell me who has the original church minutes from 1788-1842? In 1968 it was in the possession of Mr. G.L. Pass, Clerk, RFD #1, Carlton, GA 30627. It was brought in to be microfilmed by Miss Ruth Corry for Rev. Robert E. Pless.
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Jean, we do not have this information. The information you have just provided is the first we have seen. It just goes to show how vulnerable these old documents are.
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What is the address for this church in Oglethorpe?
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We don’t have an address but the location and directions are on the Google map on this page.
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