The Hadley-Reid-Short House circa 1830’s It started as a two room house With attic as loft bedrooms with a ladder access. In 1840’s two rooms were built on the back of the house, a stairway to the loft bedrooms and cooking area. The rear roof line was changed to cover under one roof. In 1860’s the Pastor’s apartment was added on the front of the house. It has it’s own entrance from the porch with no direct entrance to the house other than the front porch.
Most Pastor’s served several churches and preached a circuit of a church each Sunday once a month. Builder-owner Joseph James Hadley’s daughter K.T. Hadley married Joseph Andrew Reid in 1889. Their daughter Ellie Reid married Jessie Short. Their son J.B. Short and his wife Barbara now live in the house. They have restored and improved the old house of late leaving and refinishing the old wood interior,doors ,mantels, staircase and floors.
Joseph James Hadley was born in Halifax, NC in 1816 he got the land in the 1827 Ga. Land Lottery. Since then all owners including the present owner are a direct descendent and were born in the house. J.B. and Barbara have the original Lottery Deed to Joseph James Hadley!
Historic Midway Baptist Church
Mountain Creek Baptist Church Harris County, Ga. (1829-1856)
This church was constituted on 20 Feb. 1829 at a meeting in the home of J. W. Cooper and agreed to hold meetings in an existing building on lot 282, north side of the Mill near Mountain Creek. On 25 March
1836 the church reported to its members that it had been invited to move to Whitesville, but decided to erect its meeting house on its existing lot.
The move to Whitesville did not take place until nearly two decades later, on 25 August 1856. A noted member of Mountain Creek Church in 1856 was B. F. White of Sacred Harp song book fame. In 1857 the church began as Whitesville Baptist Church. In 1921 the church moved to it's present location and began as Midway Baptist Church and is still thriving today.
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