Founded in 1867 by freedpeople and missionary teachers meeting in the Storrs School chapel, this integrated congregation became a pillar of Black Atlanta. Under pastor Henry Hugh Proctor it pioneered social ministry, and its 1908 sanctuary still stands.
First Congregational Church United Church of Christ
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First Congregational Church United Church of Christ is a historical marker in Atlanta, Fulton County, erected in 2002. It is one of 357 historical markers documented in Fulton County, among 643 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.7573, -84.3841 near Atlanta. The nearest cataloged historic site is Lynching in America / 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include National Medical Association: Medicine in the Civil Rights Movement, First Congregational Church, and Freeman Ford Building.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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