at the Historic Bodiford House
The Powder Springs Beautification Committee was organized in 1984 by the City of Powder Springs and is a non-profit organization. The city was assisted in organizing the committee by the Mimosa Garden and the Seven Springs Historical Society. Harold Norris, one of the charter members of the Seven Springs Historical Society, was the Team Leader […]
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery 2433 Brownsville Road Powder Springs, GA 1850 The Pleasant Hill Baptist Church was established on June 7, 1850 on what is now the corner of Brownsville Road and Pine Valley Road. The land directly behind the church was set aside for their cemetery. The earliest marked grave was on February […]
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church was established on June 7, 1850 on what is now the corner of Brownsville Road and Pine Valley Road. The Church was constituted by Reverend Robert McMinn and P. M. Rice and started as a brush arbor structure. In 1867, after the civil war, the blacks removed themselves from Pleasant Hill […]
There were more streets off of and parallel to Main Street (Marietta Street) that have not had much attention or a lot written about them. The people and businesses located here also played an important part of the settling and growth of Powder Springs. These streets are: Pineview Drive; Jackson Way; Old Lost Mountain; Dillard […]
There are other streets in downtown Powder Springs, besides Main Street (Marietta Street), which have not had much said or written about them. These streets were and are just as important to the settlement and growth of Powder Springs as Main Street (Marietta Street). Some of these streets are: Atlanta Street, which was referred to […]
Powder Springs was not only blessed with good doctors from its very beginning, there were also dentist and druggist who would come and set up practice. Until the druggist came, most of the drugs used were administered by the local doctors in their daily practices and caring for the sick. They may also have had […]
Powder Springs was blessed with good doctors from its very beginning as a young settlement that first became known as Springville. Early on the doctors worked out of their homes, which were located on Main Street (Marietta Street) or within short walking distance of the center of the small town. As the town grew with […]
Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery (1870) ~ 3478 Macedonia Road The Macedonia Baptist Church was established in the 1870’s when Alfred Broadnax purchased land for the building of the church, school and a cemetery. The cemetery is located across the road from the church which is one of the first black churches in the state. There […]
Macedonia Baptist Church 3478 Macedonia Road The Macedonia Baptist Church was established in the late 1870s on Macedonia Road. It was one of the first black churches in the state. After the Civil War, Alfred Broadnax, a freed slave, left his family in Marietta to start a job. He wanted to work so he could […]
The Old Friendship Cemetery is listed as Rocky Springs Cemetery. It is located behind the Old Friendship Baptist Church on Old Trace Road, Marietta, off the Dallas Highway. The sign at the cemetery, reads in part “Cemetery Preservation” with Rocky Springs Cemetery below it. The Old Friendship Baptist Church is the oldest black church in […]