CURRENT DAY HISTORICAL ATTRACTIONS

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THIS IS THE THIRD METHODIST CHURCH BUILDING OF RECORD IN LUMBER CITY.  IN 1879, J.D. ANTHONY, PRESIDING ELDER, FOUND THAT BETWEEN COCHRAN AND JESSUP, A DISTANCE OF 110 MILES, "THE ONLY PLACE OF WORSHIP CALLED BY THE NAME OF "CHURCH" WAS IN LUMBER CITY, AND THE BUILDING THAT HOUSED THAT CHURCH WAS ALREADY IN A STATE OF DECAY".   BY 1882, HE HAD HELPED BUILD EIGHT CHURCHES ALONG THIS ROAD, ONE OF THEM BEING IN LUMBER CITY.  THE BUILDING WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE IN 1903.  IT WAS REPLACED BY THE PRESENT STRUCTURE WHICH WAS DEDICATED IN 1908.   THE PULPIT FURNITURE WAS SAVED AND IS STILL IN USE TODAY.

THE MASONIC LODGE

  THE MASONIC LODGE HALL,   BUILT AFTER THE STYLE OF THE PARTHENON HAS A  MARKER ON THE FRONT OF IT AND READS THE FOLLOWING.
     LUMBER CITY LODGE NO 197.
     F&AM
     CHARTERED MAY 9, 1856
     DEDICATED   APRIL 8, 1908
     DAN P MCARTHUR  WM, JOHN D VAUGHN SW, G. H. KURMRINE JW,
F.P. MORSE TREAS., A LEE SHORT SECTY., TS LOWREY SD, TP VARNADOE JD, G. L. THOMPSON SS, JA CORLY JS, WJ MCEACHIN TYLER.

THE MASONIC LODGE IS LOCATED ON CHURCH STREET.   THIS GREEK REVIVAL STRUCTURE WAS BUILT IN 1908 AND IS COVERED IN WEATHERBOARD. THE PLAN OF THE BUILDING IS A CENTRAL HALL WITH SIDE ROOMS AND A MAIN MEETING ROOM.  THE FRONT PORTICO HAS FOUR HUGE CORINTHIAN COLUMNS, TWO PILASTERS AND DENTILS.  THE FRONT DOOR HAS PILASTERS AND AN ENLABLATURE WITH A LARGE COLORED GLASS TRANSOM.  THE WINDOWS ARE N INE OVER NINE WITH COLORED GLASS ON THE SECOND FLOOR.

THESE MARKERS ARE AT THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAYS GA. 19 AND US 341. FIRST MARKER  DEDICATED TO MAJOR JAMES E. LIVNINGSTON.   1957 MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT. THE SECOND ONE TO ALL THAT ANSWERED THE CALL OF DUTY IN THE SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY .

 THIS MARKER IS IN FRONT OF THE THE LUMBER CITY OLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND READS THE FOLLOWING.
     THIS STREET WAS THE OLD RIVER ROAD BLAZED BY GEN. DAVID BLACKSHEAR, 1812.  SIX MILES BEYOND IN THE FORKS OF THE OCONEE AND OCMULGEE RIVER WAS THE SECOND FORT BUILT IN TELFAIR COUNTY BY GENERAL DAVID BLACKSHEAR FOR DEFENSE IN WAR OF 1812.
      THIS MARKER PLACED 1921 BY CHAPTER OF DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION.