{"nrhp_refnum":"84001159","name":"Shiloh-Marion Baptist Church and Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"GA 41","address_restricted":false,"city":"Buena Vista","county":"Marion County","state":"GA","lat":32.15991337050005,"lon":-84.54271731118389,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-05-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story frame Baptist church and adjacent rural cemetery on Georgia Highway 41 at the Marion/Webster County line near Buena Vista, Georgia, built about 1835 by an unknown builder.","why_significant":"The church is argued to be a good intact example of a simple antebellum rural Georgia church with Greek Revival styling. The cemetery is significant for its representative markers and unusual stone house-type grave coverings. The church is the only remaining vestige of the community of Church Hill and is tied to the history of the Christian Union faith founded by Reverend George Lynch Smith.","narrative":"Set in a wooded clearing on Georgia Highway 41 at the Marion and Webster county line, this one-story frame church dates to about 1835. It has a gable roof, pine weatherboard siding, a tin roof, nine-over-nine windows, hexagonal porch columns and a single-room sanctuary with a rear apse. Handmade pews and pulpit furniture remain, along with many original heart-pine floorboards. Next to it is a rural cemetery with simple upright markers and unusual stone coverings built in rectangular or elongated triangular shapes over graves. A path leads to a baptismal pool at the head of two springs. The church is the last of five churches that gave the crossroads community of Church Hill its name, and it reflects local craftsmanship in simple Greek Revival style. It also connects to the short-lived Christian Union faith, whose meetings were traditionally held in other churches such as this one. Services stopped in 1935 and resumed after reorganization in 1947.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Occupied and in religious use; the congregation was reorganized in 1947 and the church remains in use. Original site, with only minor known changes such as replaced flooring and paneling and a replaced stove.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.217936-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/84001159.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001159/1af42982a9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001159/1af42982a9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rivers Langley; SaveRivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shiloh-Marion_Baptist_Church_and_Cemetery_(NRHP)_Buena_Vista,_GA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Rivers Langley; 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:Shiloh-Marion_Baptist_Church_and_Cemetery_(NRHP)_Buena_Vista,_GA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208898","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiloh-Marion_Baptist_Church_and_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7496709"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/marion-county/shiloh-marion-baptist-church-and-cemetery-84001159/"}