DeKalb County Meeting

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Participants in a camp meeting, held in DeKalb County around 1900, gather for a photograph inside the tabernacle. The first documented camp meeting in Georgia occurred in 1803 on Shoulderbone Creek in Hancock County.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
dek208-85.

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DeKalb County Meeting

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