The Ochlocknee Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery is a historic church and school at 521 U.S. Route 319 S. in

Beachton, Georgia Beachton is an unincorporated community in Grady County, Georgia, United States. It is the location of Susina Plantation, which is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the ...

. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2010. It was built in 1918. The church was founded in 1848 by slaves and was originally located "on the outskirts" of

Pebble Hill Plantation Pebble Hill Plantation is a plantation and museum located near Thomasville, Georgia. The plantation is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. History The plantation was established in the 1820s, when Thomas Jefferson Johnson built t ...

. The congregation moved to the current location in 1918 after a fire destroyed the previous church. The property has "dates of significance" of 1918 and 1947 recorded in the National Park Service database; such dates are often dates of original construction and later expansion of buildings. It is listed as significant in the areas of architecture and of black history. It is located about east northeast of the hamlet of Beachton. There is a church named "Little Ochlocknee Baptist Church" which is different; that church is located four miles east of Ochlocknee, Georgia, about 20 miles north.Google maps

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Baptist churches in Georgia (U.S. state) Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) Buildings and structures in Grady County, Georgia National Register of Historic Places in Grady County, Georgia {{GeorgiaUS-church-stub

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