Bark Camp Church

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The Bark Camp Church, pictured around 1900, was a Baptist church established in 1788 on the Bark Camp site in Burke County. Bark Camp, founded prior to the Revolutionary War, served as a camp for incoming settlers to the area.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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