Lawrenceville recently greenlighted a $500,000 purchase of the land where Mount Calvary United Methodist Church sits at 145 Neal Blvd., right across from the school and SouthLawn.

Black History in Gwinnett County Black history isn't just about Atlanta. ... Salem Missionary Baptist Church It's said that circa 1834 Thomas Carroll instructed his slaves to build six small ...

Decades before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flooded the area to create Georgia’s largest lake, it was home to a predominantly Black community called Oscarville.

In 1786, Richard Allen, a free Black man, began preaching to other free Black people at the St. George’s Church, an antislavery, white Methodist church in Philadelphia.