The first Protestant services
in the area were held in private homes. A building was later constructed
to be used as a church on Sunday and as a school during the week.
The Woodlawn congregation has its roots in several congregations that met
over the years.
The Pine Grove Church is thought
to have begin in the 1860s. In 1901, Rev. Inabnet gave an acre of
land for the Lapine Methodist church on Charlie Griggs Road, and a church
was built in 1903. By the late 1950s and early 1960s, the congregation’s
numbers had dwindled. They decided to build a new church in a new
location.
Land on Hwy. 34, just west of
the Woodlawn School, was purchased. On August 16, 1964, the gray
brick church was completed and the congregation of Lapine moved into the
Woodlawn Church.
Some of the membership of Woodlawn
can be traced to the Sardis (new and old) congregations). Old Sardis
was built in 1857. The cemetery of the old church can still be found
on Red Cut Road. In 1903, a new church (New Sardis) was built on
Ed Rutledge Road on land donated by Benjamin Frank Gewin. As people
and business moved away, that congregation grew smaller. After the
last service at Sardis in May 1931, the congregation joined the Lapine
church. The cemetery at the new Sardis location is know known as
Rutledge Cemetery.
In 1972, the Carroll Social
Hall was constructed. |
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