{"nrhp_refnum":"78000976","name":"Kiokee Baptist Church","other_names":["Old Kiokee Baptist Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Kiokee Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Appling","county":"Columbia County","state":"GA","lat":33.57811548300003,"lon":-82.29209503899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-12-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Old Kiokee Baptist Church is a one-story brick church built in 1808 on Kiokee Road, about three miles northeast of Appling, Columbia County, Georgia. The nominated area of about 2.5 acres also includes a small wooden baptismal house and pool and a few graves.","why_significant":"It is the earliest surviving building of the first Baptist congregation organized in Georgia, founded by Reverend Daniel Marshall. The Marshall family led the congregation for about 60 years, and Abraham Marshall established the first Black Baptist church in Georgia. The building is also a well-preserved example of frontier construction with handmade components and refined details.","narrative":"Old Kiokee Baptist Church is a one-story brick meeting house completed in 1808 in a wooded clearing on Kiokee Road, about three miles northeast of Appling, Georgia. Its walls are three bricks thick, laid in Flemish bond with handmade brick. Inside, a single room has a rear balcony carried on hand-hewn heart pine pillars, some of them seven-sided, and a vaulted ceiling supported by two 40-foot beams. The brickwork was done by a Mr. Danielly, and Hezikiah and John Boyd did the woodwork. The building was listed because it is the earliest surviving structure of Georgia's first Baptist congregation, founded by Daniel Marshall in 1772. Marshall's son Abraham, who served the church during construction, organized the first Black Baptist church in Georgia in 1788. The congregation left the building in 1827, yet it remains in use for homecomings and baptisms. A baptismal house and pool about 150 yards north are included in the nominated area.","period_of_significance":"1807-1808","architect_builder":"Mr. Danielly (brickwork), Hezikiah and John Boyd (woodwork)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used by the congregation for homecomings, baptisms and other special occasions; described as in an excellent state of preservation. The baptismal house appears deteriorated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.633307-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/78000976.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000976/3c9fe58e33-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000976/3c9fe58e33-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"AugustaGALiving","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Kiokee_Baptist_Church.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">AugustaGALiving</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Kiokee_Baptist_Church.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207646","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiokee_Baptist_Church","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14686689"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/columbia-county/kiokee-baptist-church-78000976/"}