John Wesley

Preached in the Court House

erected by Oglethorpe

on this lot,

from May 9, 1736

to November 27, 1737 (OS)

–•–

This tablet is here placed

on the bi-centenary of his birth

June 28, 1903

Marker is on Whitaker St near W. York St, on the left ...

John Wesley

[South Face]

Founder of Methodism

Minister

Of The

Church of England

In Savannah

1736-1737

[East Face]

My hearts desire

for this place

is not that it be

a famous or rich

but that it may be

a religous colony

and then I am sure

it cannot faile [sic]

of the

blessing of God

John ...

The John Wesley Work Home

(Obverse): In 1937 this Victorian-style house became the home of John W. Work III. A teacher and composer for 39 years, he served his alma mater by enriching the Fisk musical traditions. Director of the Jubilee Singers, Work III, a ...

John Wesley, 1703- 1791

Founder of Methodism

On the "trust lot" south of President Street and immediately west of this square stood in 1736- 37 the parsonage in which John Wesley resided. In the adjoining garden he read, prayed and meditated. Weekly meetings of members ...

John Wesley Methodist Church

(Front)

This church, founded about 1865, is the first African-American church in Lamar and was long known as Lamar Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. It was organized by Rev. John Boston, a former slave who was its first minister, serving here ...

Wesley Chapel Trinity / John Wesley's American Parish

(Side 1):WESLEY CHAPEL TRINITY

In 1812 The Methodist Church in Savannah was formally established with the founding of Wesley Chapel at Lincoln & Oglethorpe Streets. Bishop Francis Asbury dedicated that building in 1813. In 1848 the congregation built a new church ...

John Wesley (1703-1791)

On February 6, 1736, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, landed at Peeper (now Cockspur) Island near here and there preached to his fellow voyagers his first sermon on American soil. A monument has been erected on Cockspur Island to ...

John Wesley Powell

From Green River, Wyoming on May 24, 1869 Major John Wesley Powell and a group of voyagers set out to discover the mysteries of one of the last unexplored regions in the continental United States--the Green and Colorado Rivers. Powell ...

John Wesley Landing Site

(upper inscription):

John Wesley

landed in America

on this island.

February 6, 1736

(lower inscription):

From

the Journal of John Wesley

"Fri,6,- About eight in the morning I first set my foot on American ground. It was a small uninhabited island,... over against Tybee, called by the English ...