Category Archives: Brent GA

Tabernacle Methodist Church, 1880s, Brent

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This congregation was organized circa 1840 and their first church was built of logs, a mile-and-a-half from the present location, perhaps part of the Davis Smith (1793-1868) plantation. Records indicate this structure was built circa 1880-1885.

School & Women’s Clubhouse, Circa 1910, Brent

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This was served as the Brent schoolhouse until its closure in 1929. It was later home to the Brent women’s clubhouse and voting precinct. Brent had a post office from 1891-1904. It was named for Kentucky-born merchant Thomas Young Brent, Jr. (1841-1915), who moved to this area after the Civil War and married a widow, Jane Smith Clements (1836-1903).