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The Marietta Pilgrimage
A Christmas Home Tour through Marietta, Georgia

First Presbyterian Church

The Marlow House

St. James Episcopal Church

First Baptist Church, Chapel

Old Zion Baptist Church

Root House Museum

The Anderson Mansion

The Kennesaw House

Thomas Warehouse

Marietta-Cobb Museum of Art

Brumby Hall and Gardens

 

First Baptist Church, Chapel, c. 1897

148 Church Street

 

Photo The Marietta First Baptist church was organized in 1835 with only seventeen charter members. The Church had a very large slave membership before the Civil War. The First Baptist Church met in several locations until governor Joseph Brown donated the land where the present chapel now stands. This structure was built in 1892 and was dedicated in 1897. This Roman and Gothic style building was built of Georgia marble and granite and was used as the main sanctuary until the new structure was built alongside the old in 1962.