{"nrhp_refnum":"86002176","name":"Pine Log Methodist Church, Campground, and Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"GA 140, W of US 411","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rydal","county":"Bartow County","state":"GA","lat":34.34889780250006,"lon":-84.7259263458553,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-09-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small rural historic district on Georgia Highway 140 near Rydal (Pine Log), Bartow County, Georgia, made up of a Methodist church built in 1842, a campground with an 1888 tabernacle and surrounding tents, and a cemetery with over 800 burials.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is a good example of a rural Georgia camp meeting ground with its associated church and cemetery. It is tied to frontier and rural social and religious life, since annual camp meetings have been held at the site since the 1840s. The church, tabernacle and tents are described as typical of a design found across the southeastern United States.","narrative":"Pine Log Methodist Church, Campground, and Cemetery form a ten-acre rural district in a small valley of Bartow County in northwest Georgia. The one-story frame church dates from 1842, with a portico and gable roof added in 1932. Behind it, the campground centers on an open-sided wooden tabernacle built in 1888, flanked on two sides by twelve unpainted wood-frame cottages known as tents, eleven of them built between 1928 and 1939. A cemetery with more than 800 burials, the earliest from 1851, adjoins the church and includes Cherokee, Black and white settler graves. The district was listed for its role in frontier and rural religious and social life, since annual August camp meetings have drawn Methodists here since the 1840s, and as a representative example of a Georgia camp meeting ground with its church and churchyard cemetery. Its period of significance runs from 1842 to 1939, and the camp meeting remains an annual event.","period_of_significance":"1842-1939","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Church, tabernacle and tents are still in use; the annual August camp meeting continues and the tents are occupied during meetings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.237763-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/86002176.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002176/b6bcc7dda3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002176/b6bcc7dda3-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Thomson200","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pine_Log_United_Methodist_Church_December_2016.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomson200</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pine_Log_United_Methodist_Church_December_2016.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206956","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141703615"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bartow-county/pine-log-methodist-church-campground-and-cemetery-86002176/"}