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First African Baptist Church — Cumberland Island

Cumberland Island, GA

A tiny church in the isolated Settlement at Cumberland's north end represents the island's African American community after emancipation. Its remoteness is substantial: visitors generally need bicycles, a tour or other arranged transportation to reach it from the ferry landing.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/places/first-african-baptist-church.htm

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