I can do a few pages. Dennis Dover wrote: >Using one of these tips came back with something immediately near >the top of the first page of results that I was struggling with for >the last few days ... the location of Ebenezer Methodist Church in >Habersham County, Georgia. Read about Ebenezer after the following >(there's also an Ebenezer Baptist Church somewhere in the area). > >I used "ebenezer methodist"+habersham to find the location answer. > >***** > >The village of Hollywood has never been incorporated as a town, nor >has it ever been platted as a town. It is not known when the >community adopted the name of Hollywood, but it is believed to be in >the early twentieth century. It was first called Ebenezer, which is >the name of the Methodist Church that was started in 1818, the same >year that Habersham County was charted. A small school was >subsequently built near the church and Ebenezer was the focal point >of the area. There were very few houses in the area now occupied by >Hollywood before 1840. Most of the early pioneers located along Deep >Creek, Panther Creek and Glade Creek. They were mostly farmers whose >main objective was to produce enough to sustain their families and >have a little extra to sell or trade for those items needed that >could not be produced on the farm. This was pretty much the story >until the Tallulah Falls Railway came through the area in 1892. This >opened up a source of income as the trains needed cross ties for >tracks and wood to fuel their engines. The trains offered >transportation for sending goods to the markets, which previously >had been accomplished by wagons over the Unicoi Turnpike. The name >of the new train station became known as "Ebenezer Station." About >this time, several apple orchards were planted and a cannery was >built near the train station. A grist mill was built, as was a small >store. Heretofore, the residents in the area went to the flour mill >and post office at the "Franklin/Walker Lime Kiln." In time past, it >had been an Indian commissary, which is located approximately two >miles from Hollywood on Davidson Creek. > >About 1920, a new schoolhouse was built across the road from the >depot, which burned a few years later and was replaced shortly >thereafter. > >There are very few homes of historical significance left standing in >the Hollywood area. Hollywood is doing well in modern times, >however. It has a grammar school, Hollywood Baptist Church, Ebenezer >Methodist Church, convenience stores, new water and gas lines, a >regulation golf course and many new homes and condominiums. It is an >interesting and friendly neighborhood. > >Submitted by George T. Grant, Clarkesville > >http://www.tourhabersham.com/pages/citieshollywood.html > >I'll throw something out that has no immediate answer, but possibly >some big clues to follow through with. I have the microfilm that >Bobbie Jean loaned me in another lifetime that is the 1834 poor >school records for Habersham County. There's 700 plus names. First, >old Habersham in 1834 included what became White County and included >a sliver of Lumpkin County. The list (pages) show no location of the >schools which were probably "church locations." The given names and >ages are fooling because there's no way to identify most of the kids >(a number of Dover) because the daughters married before 1850 and >the sons may have moved. That includes other surnames. Most of the >Dover's have no clue "where" they were for location when a number of >them left before 1840 and for sure 1850. Best chance is to stab at >locations as a census reference but that has been almost impossible >to do so far. Maybe Ebenezer Methodist Church in the Hollywood area >might include the surnames in the church records for a comparison >with known census, isolate a probable location for the kids listed >together. > >I feel the pain coming on this task. I started the transcription >many months ago. There's only 12 images (pages) but some are hard to >read. The poor school records from the microfilm are not anywhere on >the internet and I doubt that many researchers have ever seen them. > >Are there six people with Habersham roots that would be willing to >transcribe two pages each? I would be happy to send any or all of >the images to anyone who is interested in helping. It might go >really fast that way. > >***** > >Habersham County >Ebenezer Methodist Church > >About the time Habersham County was organized in 1818, Ebenezer >Methodist Church was built across the highway from the present >location on land owned by the Mathews Estate. No records can be >found of the building committee or of the date the first church was >built, but the information has been handed down to the oldest >citizens and church members that Mr. Mathews gave permission for the >church to be built on his property and that it probably remained >there about 70 years until the church purchased 8.5 acres from >EDWARD N. IVESTER in 1892. This church was at one time in the >Dahlonega Charge. It has also been in the Elberton Charge and >Gainesville Charge. Many pastors have served the church staying >anywhere from 1 to 9 years. A deed was made on May 18, 1892, >between EDWARD N. IVESTER and the Trustees of Ebenezer Church. The >Trustees were: A. C. INGLIS, J. T. Smith, G. A. Anderson, J. R. >Anderson, and MOSES FRANKLIN. They purchased the church lot and >graveyard for the sum of $27.00. The deed states: "This land to be >held in Trust, that said premises shall be used, kept, maintained >and disposed of as a place of Divine Worship of the Methodist >Episcopal Church, subject to the Discipline, Usage, and Ministerial >Appointments of said Church." The deed was recorded on July 19, >1892. The church was moved back from the highway around 1927 at the >time the highway was paved. > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~gahabers/churches/ebenezermethodist.htm > >A. C. INGLIS could be Alexander Inglis or maybe his son, the elder >being the father-in-law of Robert Short Dover son of Jarrett Nelson >Dover and Matilda Goodson son of Johnson Dover and Hulda Cross son >of Francis J. Dover. Moses Franklin had a daughter and son that >married Dover's ... Nancy to Edward Parker Dover and George to Nancy >Elizabeth Dover, both children of Jarrett Nelson Dover. Correct and >clarify where I'm wrong on this. > >***** > >The following is a great cemetery database for Banks, Habersham and >White counties in Georgia ... much on Habersham where the majority >of the known burial plots for Dover AND allied are located at >Ebenezer Methodist Church in Habersham. Some dob/dod that I have >never seen before. So far, lots of Davidson and Dooly are there. The >database is very big. I downloaded the entire database into a Word >document that is 715 pages long ... for searching key words >(cemetery name) instead of surname groups off the web. Also married >Dover daughters are identified. > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~gahaber2/cemdb/01.htm > > > > > > >==== DOVER Mailing List ==== >GENEALOGY WITHOUT DOCUMENTATION IS MYTHOLOGY > > > > > >