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This small, wire-fenced burial ground marks the original site of the Antioch Methodist Church, a frame building that was later lost to fire. Reached only by dirt tracks off old Harper Cemetery Road southwest of Sparta, it retains just a handful of documented graves, with four memorials recorded on Find A Grave.
Antioch Cemetery is a cemetery in Sparta, Hancock County. It is one of 140 cemeteries documented in Hancock County, among 163 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.2874, -83.1179 near Sparta. The nearest cataloged historic site is Rives Cemetery (cemetery), about 1.4 miles away. Others within a short drive include Harper Cemetery, Clayton - Bonner Family Cemetery, and Amoss Family Cemetery.
This record is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
This small, wire-fenced burial ground marks the original site of the Antioch Methodist Church, a frame building that was later lost to fire. Reached only by dirt tracks off old Harper Cemetery Road southwest of Sparta, it retains just a handful of documented graves, with four memorials recorded on Find A Grave.
Sources: findagrave.com
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