{"nrhp_refnum":"01001555","name":"Greenville Presbyterian Church and Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Greenville Rocky Mount Rd, off GA41/US27 Alt.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greenville","county":"Meriwether County","state":"GA","lat":33.06563845000005,"lon":-84.70513102999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-02-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small one-story, rectangular wood-frame rural church with an adjoining cemetery on Greenville Rocky Mount Road near Greenville, Meriwether County, Georgia. The church was built about 1836 on land obtained from George Gallman; the builder is unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a good, largely intact example of a simple one-room country church, keeping its original wooden walls, windows, floors, ceiling, hand-hewn benches and chamfered posts. It is also a rare rural Presbyterian church in a Georgia dominated by Baptists and Methodists, founded on the frontier soon after the county opened to settlement.","narrative":"Set north of Greenville on Greenville Rocky Mount Road, this small wood-frame church dates to about 1836 and sits beside its cemetery. The one-story building measures roughly 29 by 45 feet and has a single interior room with a raised pulpit, benches facing it, hand-hewn choir benches and four posts with ledges for oil lamps. Its original wooden walls, floors, ceiling and windows survive. The congregation was organized in 1829, soon after the area opened to settlement, and chose to sell its town lot and build in the country. Presbyterians were rare in Georgia, where Baptists and Methodists predominated, so the church is considered an unusual rural example. The cemetery has separate white and African-American burial areas, including the graves of local founders, three state legislators and enslaved people. Services lapsed from 1963 to 1972, and the congregation now meets weekly. The period of significance runs from 1836 to 1952.","period_of_significance":"1836-1952","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"OTHER: rural vernacular church","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a church with weekly Sunday services; the cemetery is also still present on the grounds. Services stopped in 1963 and resumed in 1972.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.116601-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/01001555.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001555/c4028b8428-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001555/c4028b8428-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Saverivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greenville_Presbyterian_Church_and_Cemetery;_Greenville,_GA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Saverivers</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greenville_Presbyterian_Church_and_Cemetery;_Greenville,_GA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208959","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenville_Presbyterian_Church_and_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5604723"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/meriwether-county/greenville-presbyterian-church-and-cemetery-01001555/"}