Dug Gap Baptist Church
Dalton South
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Dug Gap Baptist church was organized in 1860. Buildings on
three different
sites have been used, the present building having been erected in 1912.
Rev. J. T. Nichols, who was pastor in 1887, gives the following
names as
early members: Mr. and Mrs. James Longley, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Longley, Mr. and
Mrs. Bowdry, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Longley, Mrs. Martha Poole, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper
Oxford, Mr. and Mrs. LaFayette Oxford and Joseph, Richard, John and Coleman
Williams and Miss Annie Williams.
County records show that on February 1, 1912, L. C. Babb deeded to
the Church
of Christ of Dug Gap for one dollar and love and esteem for the Church of
Christ, slightly less than one acre of land.
Among pastors serving Dug Gap have been B. F. Foster, J. T.
Nichols, Will
Dawn, Charlie Maples, J. H. Cargal, E. 0. Davis, J. 0. Dantzler, W. HJ. Roberts
and S. P. Chitwood.
Source: History of Whitfield County, 1936
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