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Sweet Field of Eden Baptist Church and Cemetery

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1897; 1961 rebuilt. 9630 Lehigh Ave., Pin Point

Sweet Field of Eden was built as the successor to Ossabaw Island’s Hinder Me Not Church when the congregation migrated to Pin Point. Its triangular plot is one of the first that William Bond and Benjamin Dillwood acquired from Henry McAlpin in what is now Pin Point. They built the original church on land purchased for one dollar, and that building became the center of the community, also serving as a local school until 1926. This concrete-block structure, which is still a traditional single-room church with a small front steeple, replaced the original building. Over the door is a delicate block cross, with classical molding around the entrance and windows. Sweet Field of Eden remains a vital part of the Pin Point community.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler
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What's Nearby

Bethesda Academy (Bethesda Home for Boys)
Whitefield Chapel, Bethesda Academy
Pin Point Heritage Museum (A. S. Varn and Sons Oyster and Crab Co.)
Wormsloe Historic Site
Wormsloe Entrance Complex

Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Sweet Field of Eden Baptist Church and Cemetery", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-19.5.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 269-270.

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