George Hart
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press published in association with Georgia Humanities
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 388 pages ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...