South Newport Baptist Church
This Church was organized by the Rev. Charles O. Screven at Harris Neck, 7 miles West of here, during the early 1800´s. as the Harris Neck Baptist Church, it was admitted to the Sunburry Baptist Association November 12, 1824. In the early 1830´s, the Church was moved to this site and became the South Newport Baptist Church. On December 9, 1841, the South Newport Baptist Church was chartered, the Trustees named: charles W. Thorpe, Gideon B. Dean, Thomas K. Gould. William J. Cannon, Henry J. White. The present edifice is the second erected on this site.
GHM 095-31 Georgia Historical Commission 1957
Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.
Original page, with additional info, here.
Photo credit: Mike Stroud.