Historic Rural Churches of Georgia - Hardcover

Seals, Sonny; Hart, George S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820349356 ISBN 13: 9780820349350

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2016

Synopsis

Aspects of Georgia’s unique history can only be told through its extant rural churches. As the Georgia backcountry rapidly expanded in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the churches erected on this newly parceled land became the center of community life. These early structures ranged from primitive outbuildings to those with more elaborate designs and were constructed with local, hand-hewn materials to serve the residents who lived nearby. From these rural communities sprang the villages, towns, counties, and cities that informed the way Georgia was organized and governed and that continue to influence the way we live today.

Historic Rural Churches of Georgia presents forty-seven early houses of worship from all areas of the state. Nearly three hundred stunning color photographs capture the simple elegance of these sanctuaries and their surrounding grounds and cemeteries. Of the historic churches that have survived, many are now in various states of distress and neglect and require restoration to ensure that they will continue to stand. This book is a project of the Historic Rural Churches of Georgia organization, whose mission is the preservation of historic rural churches across the state and the documentation of their history since their founding. If proper care is taken, these endangered and important landmarks can continue to represent the state’s earliest examples of rural sacred architecture and the communities and traditions they housed.

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About the Author

Sonny Seals (Author)
SONNY SEALS is the coauthor, with George S. Hart, of the award-winning Historic Rural Churches of Georgia (Georgia), published in 2016. Also with George S. Hart, he is a cofounder of Historic Rural Churches of Georgia, a nonprofit formed in 2013 for the purpose of researching and documenting some of Georgia’s most historic and architecturally significant rural churches. Seals is a graduate of Georgia Tech and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

George S. Hart (Author)
GEORGE S. HART is a cofounder, with Sonny Seals, of Historic Rural Churches of Georgia, a nonprofit formed in 2013 with the purpose of researching and documenting some of Georgia’s most historic and architecturally significant rural churches. Historic Rural Churches of Georgia was awarded a 2016 National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Historic Preservation Medal. www.hrcga.org

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820349356
• ISBN 13: 9780820349350
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432