{"nrhp_refnum":"95000734","name":"Green Grove Church, School, and Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Old Lumpkin--Eufaula Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lumpkin","county":"Stewart County","state":"GA","lat":32.00750762900003,"lon":-84.86218316099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-06-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education","Black","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural African American church, one-room school and cemetery complex on Old Lumpkin-Eufaula Road, about six miles southwest of Lumpkin in Stewart County, Georgia. The church was completed in 1927 and the school was rebuilt on the site in 1936-1937.","why_significant":"The complex is argued to be an intact example of an early 20th-century country church and one-room schoolhouse serving a rural Black community. It reflects African American educational, ethnic and religious history, since the congregation created and ran a school when little public education was provided for Black children. The church congregation remains active.","narrative":"Green Grove Church, School, and Cemetery is a small rural complex southwest of Lumpkin in Stewart County, Georgia. It includes a one-story frame church with a corner bell tower, completed in 1927 after earlier churches were lost to a 1919 tornado and a 1924 fire. A one-room frame school stands beside it, along with a cemetery begun in the 1920s. The congregation, organized in 1886, bought a closed white elementary school from the Wesley Chapel area in 1936, took it apart, hauled it four miles by wagon and rebuilt it for the 1937-1938 term. Before that, classes had been held inside the church. The school served Black children from a wide farming area until it closed in 1958. Both buildings keep most of their original finishes, floors, walls and furnishings. The complex is recognized for its architecture and for its role in the educational, African American and religious history of the community.","period_of_significance":"1927-1937","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The church still has an active congregation and the school building is used by the church for church functions. The school closed in 1958.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.569632-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/95000734.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000734/77f9c8b841-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000734/77f9c8b841-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rivers Langley; SaveRivers","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Green_Grove_Church_and_Schoolhouse_(Lumpkin,_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:Green_Grove_Church_and_Schoolhouse_(Lumpkin,_GA).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209495","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141808791"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/stewart-county/green-grove-church-school-and-cemetery-95000734/"}