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Home » Live Oak Methodist Church, c. 1888

Live Oak Methodist Church, c. 1888

March 23, 2021Ashburn
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Live Oak church has served the community since the late 1800s. Gravity has since taken it’s toll on the church roof and I’m afraid only a strong wind will knock it down. 

According to John Ben Pate in his book History of Turner County written in 1933, “About 1850 or 1855, there was a Methodist Church about two miles south of Live Oak Methodist Church… Live Oak Church itself is doubtless a reorganization of this old church.”*

Location: Live Oak Rd. in Ashburn, GA 
Date: March 21, 2021

The original tongue and groove wooden flooring sits on beams that are on top of brick piers.
From this angle, you can really see the warped damage to the roof.

This photo was taken back in 2011 with a film camera when the church, although in disrepair then, was in much better condition.

*Book Citation:
Pate, John Ben. History of Turner County. Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Company, 1979. Page 58.

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