First Baptist Church
1800 Sesquicentennial 1950
On November 26, 1800 the Reverend Henry Holcombe
and fifteen other Baptists organized the Savannah
Baptist Church. As early as 1795 a group of interested
Baptists had erected a house of worship on Franklin
Square where the congregation worshipped for
thirty-three years. The Sunday School was organized
there on April 29, 1827.
During the Pastorate of the Reverend Henry O. Wyer
the cornerstone of the present church on Chippewa
Square was laid on February 2, 1831 and the building
was completely renovated in 1921. Since 1847 the
church has been called the First Baptist Church. In
1926 the Educational Building was erected and
dedicated to the memory of John J. Cummings.
The church has had a long line of distinguished
deacons and members who have given it their
support, devotion and prayers. The Pastors have
been Henry Holcombe, William B. Johnson,
Benjamin Screven, James Sweat, James Meredith,
Henry O. Wyer, Josiah S. Law, Charles B. Jones,
J. G. Binney, Albert Williams, Joseph T. Robert,
Thomas Rambaut, J.B. Stiteler, G.S. Daniel, Sylvanus
Landrum, Timothy Harley, J.E.L. Holmes, S.A. Goodwin,
J.D. Jordan, W.L. Pickard, J.J. Taylor, L.R. Christie,
Norman W. Cox, John E. White, Arthur Jackson, and
Leroy G. Cleverdon.
This tablet is given in grateful recognition to God
for his Divine Blessings on the church and is
dedicated to the memories of the Reverend Henry
Holcombe and those who succeeded him in its
Ministry. Done with appropriate exercises on this
the twenty-sixth day of November One Thousand
Nine Hundred and Fifty and Fiftieth Anniversary of
the organization of the First Baptist Church of
Savannah Georgia.
Marker is on Bull St. near W. McDonough St., on the right when traveling south.
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