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Holly Grove African Methodist Episcopal Church

Erected by Georgia Historical Society

 

Dedicated August 01, 1999

 

Region: Atlanta Metro

County: Fayette

GPS: N33 21.54714|W084 31.48374

 

 

 

  This church was organized in 1897 near the banks of Camp Creek in an unincorporated area of western Fayette County. Until the first sanctuary was constructed here on land and with building materials donated by Flem Arnall, services were held under a brush arbor and in homes. In the early years worship services were held once a month. From 1897 until desegregation in the 1960s, the church also operated a school here for the community’s black children, grades 1-7, with donated text books. The present structure, constructed in 1980, was annexed into 28-year-old Peachtree City in 1987.