Bay Springs Methodist (Washington County, Ga.)

The Bay Springs Church was organized in 1904 under the leadership of Rev. L. A. Snow and Rev. C. C. Hines. For the first few years services were held only on Sunday afternoons. Mrs. Charlie Hinson gave an acre of land for the church building. The first church was an unceiled building with glass windows; a woodburning heater sat in the center of the church and gas lanterns were used for lighting. In the mid-1920s, the building was ceiled and painted. Later in the 1940s, three Sunday School rooms were added. There are a good many graves in the cemetery with dates prior to 1904. The present church is probably the 1907 church that was a successor sanctuary to the original. 1982 Membership: 51