St Luke's Baptist Church, Hog Hammock, Sapelo Island, Georgia
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In the early 1800's Thomas Spaulding developed Sapelo Island into an antebellum plantation empire and introduced the cultivation of sugar cane and manufacture of sugar to Georgia. West African slaves known as Geechee were brought to work on the plantation and by 1850 Spaulding owned 385 slaves. With the end of the Civil War and during Reconstruction, the barrier islands of Georgia were set aside as reservations for freed slaves. On Sapelo Island freed slaves formed communities including Hog Hammock, Raccoon Bluff, Shell Hammock, Belle Marsh, and Lumbar Landing. St Luke's Baptist church was constructed in 1884 to serve the Hog Hammock Community.
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