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Simms, James M. (James Meriles)

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Image of a post-Civil War photograph showing members of Savannah, Georgia's First African Bryan Church, named after early Baptist minister Andrew Bryan, congregating outside the church building. The simple two-story wooden church is lined with windows, and a fence surrounds the building. A large tree grows in the front churchyard. The church is one of the oldest black churches in Savannah and in North America.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American Baptists
  2. African American Churches
  3. African Americans
  4. Baptist Church Buildings
  5. Baptists
  6. Buildings
  7. Buildings, Structures, Etc
  8. Church Buildings
  9. First Bryan Baptist Church (Savannah, Ga.)
  10. Georgia
  11. Historic Buildings
  12. Savannah
  13. Savannah (Ga.)
  14. Trees

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