Whitfield-Murray Historical Society and Spring Place Ruritan Club are hosting the annual Spring Place Community Festival in Chatsworth, Ga., to raise funds for the preservation of Old Spring Place Methodist Church.
The event will be held along Elm Street in Chatsworth from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 19.
What began as an Indian Mission in the early 1830s evolved into a Methodist church after the Cherokee were forcibly removed from Murray County in 1838, according to records from Murray County Museum.
In 1851, the congregation built a brick structure on Elm Street in Spring Place. When that building burned, the congregation built a wood replacement on the same foundation in 1875. That building served the Methodist congregation for 100 years.
In 1976, they built a new church on Cleveland Highway north of Vann House.