By: Frank Daniel
Atlanta Journal Constitution Staff Writer
TALBOTTON, Ga--One of Georgia's most famous churches has about the
smallest membership. There are three communicants of Zion
Episcopal church in Talbotton, but its influence is much higher than its
enrollment.
Built in 1848 by prosperous South Carolinians as a mission in then an
area of Georgia that was newly emerging from the wilderness, Zion
remains today the only Episcopal church between Macon and Columbus,
Griffin and Fort Valley.
Talbotton is 10 years older than Atlanta, however, and was a thriving
community in 1848, and it already had its growing traditions and its
aristocratic outlook. Today Zion is a symbol of the spirit of well-being
Talbotton's founders brought into a community that seems never to have
been a pioneer village.
The Community Center in talbotton was in 1830 the LaVert Female Academy,
founded by Mme. Octavia LeVert, granddaughter of signer-of-the
Declaration of Independence George Walton.
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