Haralson United Methodist Church

Haralson United Methodist Church's story begins in Banks County when a man named Caleb Garrison attempted to whip his son Michael. The boy ran away and ended up in Haralson, then known as Lick Skillet. There he married and accumulated a sizable land holding. A few years later his father found and in his frontier spirit, moved to Lick Skillett and later donated two acres for a Methodist church and Garrison Meeting House was established. Then as membership flourished, members wanted to hold a camp on Caleb's property near a spring. When he refused, his son invited the members to hold camp at his own property. It seems old Caleb Garrison was corn brewing on his property and made some whiskey. When the church members asked him to destroy it it got incensed and proceeded to tear down the meeting house and build a barn. Shortly after the pioneer spirit got Caleb again and he moved west. His son stayed behind and helped re-establish the church with a new building on the current property in 1840. The current structure was built in 1890 and the church is quite active today.
Andy Sarge