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commenced in 1767 and completed in 1769, on the site formerly occupied by a
temporary structure of wood. It was invested by the British during the Revolution,
who used it first as a hospital for the sick and then as a stable in which the horses
of the officers were kept. The house of worship was also desecrated in other ways.
With unbridled license, these ruffians, who were most of the time under the influence
of bad liquor, converted the pulpit, the windows, the mottoes on the walls, and other
objects into targets, at which they discharged firearms. The result was that at
the close of hostilities it was little better than a ruin; but the walls were intact,
and, subsequent to the Eevolution, it was restored to something like the appearance
which it formerly presented.
On April 21, 1911, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, a handsome tablet of bronze
was unveiled on the walls of the old church at Ebenezer by the Georgia Society of
Colonial Dames of America; and lettered upon the tablet is this inscription:
To the Glory of God. In Memory of the Salzburger Lutherans
who landed at Savannah, Georgia, March 12th, 1734, and built this
Jerusalem Church in 1767-1769. Erected by the Georgia Society
of Colonial Dames of America.
L. L. Knight in "Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials and Legends," Vol. II.