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The monastery at daybreak. The Monastery of the Holy Spirit was founded on March 21, 1944, by twenty monks from the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. The Archdiocese of Atlanta and silent film star Colleen Moore donated 1,400 acres (5.7 km 2) of land and the first monks lived in a barn while they built (by themselves) what would become known as the "pine board" monastery.
Lindale is located in southeastern Floyd County at (34.193495, -85.173713 It is bordered to the north by the city of Rome, the county seat.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Lindale CDP has a total area of 5.5 square miles (14.3 km 2), of which 5.4 square miles (14.0 km 2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km 2), or 2.20%, is water.
The monks quickly began missionary work amongst newly freed slaves, opening St. Benedict Parish in the city that year, and a parochial school the following year. [ 3 ] Soon after settling there, the monks were able to obtain some parcels of land on the Isle of Hope , off the coast of Savannah, where they opened the first monastery in the ...
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Toomsboro was founded when the Central of Georgia Railway was extended to that point. Its railroad terminal was built in 1869. [4]On August 30, 1871, Matthew Deason, a white man, and an African American woman who was possibly his wife, Serena Dul Cat C. Johnson (Georgia Marriages 1699–1944 in Wilkinson County Georgia) were lynched in Toomsboro by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Lawrenceville is located in central Gwinnett County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 13.5 square miles (35.0 km 2), of which 13.4 square miles (34.7 km 2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km 2), or 0.83%, is water.
Loganville is in western Walton County, with the city limits extending west into southeastern Gwinnett County. U.S. Route 78 (Atlanta Highway) passes through the center of town, leading east 5 miles (8.0 km) to Monroe, the Walton County seat, and west 32 miles (51 km) to downtown Atlanta.
The main roads through Saint George are Georgia State Route 94 which runs west to east through the Georgia Bend from two separate bridges of the Saint Mary's River, and Georgia State Routes 121 and 23 which run north and south from a bridge over the Saint Mary's River through Folkston, then branch off separately while being overlapped by US 1-23 and 301 in Homeland.