Calvary United Methodist (Jasper County, Ga.)

In 1859 Jasper County resident Mathew Whitfield conveyed a two acre tract of land on the Monticello-Madison road to a group of Shady Dale settlers for the sum of $20 to be used for building a church and cemetery. The church built there was Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church and still stands today over 150 years later. The church had been founded in 1857 and was originally located on the Madison road about two miles north of Shady Dale. There is still an old cemetery there with the graves of early Jasper County pioneers and church founders.