It was likely originally a Doctor's office built around 1850. The window's on it seem to suggest that possibility.Andy Sarge
Still occupied. Andy Sarge
C
irca 1900. The porch was added later.Andy Sarge
Built in 1830
Paul Bridges
It was founded around 1813 by a Georgia Refugee named Uncle Robert Smith who had migrated into what is now Oglethorpe County around in the 1780s. He built a brush arbor that served as a meeting place until a log meeting house was built in 1820 that was located behind the current structure and then he founded the first Methodist society in the county. In 1844 a small frame building was erected in front of the current structure and the log house became the Sunday School. In 1873 the sanctuary was expanded and glass windows added but before long it was felt a new building would have been a better option. The current sanctuary was constructed in 1896. Over the years it has been expanded and modernized. The church is still active today but at some point recently it left the Methodist Conference and is now known as Mt Pleasant Community Church.
Andy Sarge
House that is to far gone to fix in Oglethorpe County.
Paul Bridges
Historical Marker Inscription: This ancient Church has served under four names and in four counties. Liberty Presbyterian Church was organized by the Rev. Daniel Thatcher, about 1788. The original place of worship, a log house, was erected near War Hill, about seven miles from the present site. The church was called “Liberty”, because, though built by Presbyterians, all orthodox denominations were allowed to use it. The Presbytery of Hopewell, formed Nov. 3, 1796, held its first session in Liberty Church on March 16, 1798. Soon after 1800, the log house was abandoned, and a new structure erected at the top of Starr’s Hill on the old Greensboro Post Road. The name of the church was then changed to Salem. The Rev. Francis Cummins was the first minister to preach there. This building was used until 1834, when the location of the Greensboro road was changed, and a new church edifice was erected at the site of the present Phillips Mills Baptist Church. The Rev. S. J. Cassels was the first pastor, followed by the Rev. Francis R. Goulding. In 1848, the Salem church building was sold to the Baptists, and the entire Presbyterian membership moved to Woodstock, now Philomath, where a new church edifice had been built. The Rev. John W. Reid was pastor at the time of the removal.
Paul Bridges
