Green Grove Church, School, and Cemetery

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.