Face Jug #1 by Lanier Meaders is part of Georgia's State Art Collection. Clay, 10 x 8 x 6 1/2 inches The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. Requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource should be submitted to the Georgia Council for the Arts. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomqiknJqwtbXOp6pon5Wkv6i1wKxkrKyRqbJurdGtZJynnKGypMDIqKVonpGYsm621KBkapedmq6lsdGslmloYWJ%2FcA%3D%3D

This post-Civil War sketch depicts members of Savannah's First Bryan Baptist Church, named after early Baptist minister Andrew Bryan, congregating outside the church building. The church is one of the oldest Black churches in North America. Photograph by James M. Simms The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print.

In 1924, three years after Roosevelt contracted polio, he began visiting Warm Springs in Georgia. The springs were thought to be beneficial for polio victims. Roosevelt, who became the U.S. president in 1932, is pictured in front of the Little White House in Warm Springs. The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print.

The Free Will Baptists are an Arminian Baptist denomination with origins in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Followers of the doctrine of the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius, they reject the Calvinist belief in absolute predestination, maintaining instead that salvation is open to all. Early History The origins of present-day Free Will Baptists can be traced to two separate beginnings. Most descend from the southern movement, which originated in colonial North Carolina under the leadership of Benjamin Laker (active in the 1680s) and Paul Palmer (active in the 1720s), who were English General Baptists.

The Retreat Plantation house on St. Simons Island was owned by Major William Page from 1804 until his death in 1827, when his daughter, Anna Matilda Page, and her husband, Thomas Butler King, inherited it. The house, no longer standing, was located on the southwestern tip of the island. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZoq6iomZjAcLPEqJ6rmaCdtqR50Z6eoqeeqHw%3D