Pleasant Grove Methodist Church
Dalton
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The Methodist members of Shady Grove purchased land and
erected a building on
the Cleveland highway south of the original structure. The first acre of the new
location was deeded by Anthony Bolander for the consideration of fifteen dollars
to Martin P. Berry, Isaac N. Hair, Thos. A. Tye, John Lewis Bender and S. C.
Swan. This was on July 26, 1873.
The second deed records that on March 31, 1876, John D. Williamson
gave five
and one-fourth acres "for the cause of Christianity" to M. P. Berry, S. Swan, J.
M. Bailey, J. L. Bender and L. W. Quillian.
An additional grant of one and three-fourths acres was given by
Cephus
Stradley on September 7, 1885, to J. L. Bender, James Kirk and T. A. Tye.
In the deed made by John D. Williamson to M. P. Berry et al one
acre of land
was reserved ("to be selected and measured by said party of the first part") for
the purpose of erecting a cottage and stables to be used at the camp meetings
held annually at Pleasant Grove.
A church and a school building were erected on these grounds, also
a huge
arbor where the Whitfield County Sunday school convention has been held for
about sixty years.
In addition to the trustees named in the deeds were others
prominent in the
development of the church's history. Among them were the Brooker family, the
Jewell family, the Cady family and the Kirk family.
This church is one of a group comprising the Varnell circuit.
Source: History of Whitfield County, 1936
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