Union Meeting House, a Methodist church three miles east on the old River Road, is the oldest church in Bulloch County and one of the oldest churches in Georgia that has remained continuously active since its organization. The title to the land was acquired from the state by grant to trustees Joseph Jackson, Jarvis Jackson, Lemuel Williams, Griffin Merrill, and Joshua Hodges, dated September 1, 1794, and recorded in Screven County, when the land was part of that county. A plat made about that time by William Blair, an Irishman, showed the meeting house already on the land, indicating an earlier origin. Many devout men and women came from this church and community. Among its earlier members was Lydia Anciaux, widow of Col. Nicholas Anciaux, a Frenchman and Revolutionary War hero, whose daughter became the wife of Senator McPherson Berrien, Attorney general in President Andrew Jackson's cabinet. Legend says that Bishop Francis Asbury preached there and that Lorenzo Dow also visited and preached there.