Category Archives: Pidcock GA

New Jersey Missionary Baptist Church, Pidcock

This is another of countless rural churches for which I can find no historical information, even though I believe it to be an old congregation. Its address is listed as Dixie, but it’s actually much closer to the ghost town of Pidcock. James N. Pidcock, for whom the settlement was named, was a wealthy New Jersey entrepreneur with wide-ranging South Georgia timber interests, and a home in Moultrie. It’s possible he was a benefactor of the church, as he would have employed many African-Americans in his timber business.