Houston Baptist Church Cemetery
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Houston Baptist Church Cemetery

Port Wentworth, Chatham County, Georgia, USA

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    Coordinates: 32.21909, -81.19634
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Houston Baptist Church Cemetery is located to the east of the north bound lanes of Georgia Highway 21 within the City of Port Wentworth. The abandoned church building was razed and its replacement was built on the same foundation. The following information appears on the historic marker at the cemetery which was dedicated in June of 2007:


Houston Baptist Church and its adjoining cemetery were organized in 1886 under the leadership of Reverend Ulysses L. Houston, minister of First Bryan Baptist Church in Savannah. A significant religious and politcal leader in the African-American community, Houston attended the meeting at Gen. Sherman's Savannah headquarters in January 1865 that resulted in Special Field Order No.15 (the redistribution of confiscated coastal land in forty-acre tracts to newly freed blacks). Houston also served in a term in Georgia's Reconstruction legislature. Established in the tradition of earlier plantation praise houses intended to Christianize the enslaved population of rural plantations, Houston Baptist Church served the African Americans of Rice Hope Plantation. Houston Baptist Church continued to serve the local community until the 1970s.

2007.4 Erected by the Georgia Historical Society and the North Port Wentworth Citizens Council, Inc. 25-28


The church building is now marked with a sign that reads "Welcome To The Houston Museum".

Houston Baptist Church Cemetery is located to the east of the north bound lanes of Georgia Highway 21 within the City of Port Wentworth. The abandoned church building was razed and its replacement was built on the same foundation. The following information appears on the historic marker at the cemetery which was dedicated in June of 2007:


Houston Baptist Church and its adjoining cemetery were organized in 1886 under the leadership of Reverend Ulysses L. Houston, minister of First Bryan Baptist Church in Savannah. A significant religious and politcal leader in the African-American community, Houston attended the meeting at Gen. Sherman's Savannah headquarters in January 1865 that resulted in Special Field Order No.15 (the redistribution of confiscated coastal land in forty-acre tracts to newly freed blacks). Houston also served in a term in Georgia's Reconstruction legislature. Established in the tradition of earlier plantation praise houses intended to Christianize the enslaved population of rural plantations, Houston Baptist Church served the African Americans of Rice Hope Plantation. Houston Baptist Church continued to serve the local community until the 1970s.

2007.4 Erected by the Georgia Historical Society and the North Port Wentworth Citizens Council, Inc. 25-28


The church building is now marked with a sign that reads "Welcome To The Houston Museum".

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  • Added: 26 Mar 2008
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2254928