Category Archives: Odessadale GA

Vernacular Houses, Odessadale

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There are at least two of these hip-roofed utilitarian structures remaining in Odessadale. The form was once much more common in the area.

Branch Hebron Missionary Baptist Church, Odessadale

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This church, founded by ex-slaves in 1868, is the center of the African-American community in Odessadale.

Odessadale United Methodist Church, Circa 1903, Meriwether County

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The Odessadale Methodist Church was organized in the local school house in 1897. Miss Odessa Thompson, a Baptist, gave the congregation an acre-and-a-half of land. A Sunday School was established in 1901 or  1902 and this church built soon thereafter.