Sardis Baptist Church

On Sept. 28, 1803, a group of men living in Burke County near Beech Branch Meeting House, "found to be in the true Baptist faith", by a presbytery of Rev. Henry Hand and Rev. John Ross, were constituted into one ...

Sardis Church

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Sardis Church, about 2 miles West on this Road, is the oldest church in Charlton County. Constituted some time before 1821, the first edifice was built in this area. The church was moved to or near its ...

Sardis Methodist Church

Sardis Methodist Church is built on land taken from the Indians by Sy Donaldson and given to the church before this section of the State had been surveyed -- when land was platted by beeswax string, and there were no ...

Original Site Sardis Baptist Church

Erected 1810

Rebuilt 1847

Dismantled 1940 and material used in erecting pastorium in Sardis.

Originally Beech Branch Meeting House constituted in 1803.

Marker is on Old Sardis Road west of Cemetery Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Sardis Presbyterian Church & Cemetery

The first residence of missionaries sent in 1821 to establish the Turnip Mountain Mission to the Cherokees was located on this site, just north of the Cemetery wall. The mission, later known as Haweis, was built two miles to the ...