Cane Creek Baptist (Lumpkin County, Ga.)

Cane Creek Baptist was established immediately after the Civil War in a remote part of Lumpkin County. It is located at the end of a one mile winding road that adjoins the Chattahoochee National Forest, and it would be difficult to overstate the beauty and tranquility of the site. The church was founded April 28, 1867, and has obviously been loved and well maintained for the last 150 years. The original Cane Creek constitution shows six original members, five from the Shed family and one Stargel. One photograph from the "Vanishing Georgia" website is a remarkable shot of the Rev. J.J. Shed (1857 – 1937) standing at the pulpit of the church just after the turn of the century. His family were founders of Cane Creek and both his father and grandfather are buried in the little cemetery beside the church. According to a local news article, there was no electricity service to the church until 1985. Farming was very difficult in the this area of North Georgia and most of the early settlers in this part of Lumpkin County supported themselves, in one way or another, by the gold mining industry.