Kiokee

Kiokee lies in the wooded country of eastern Georgia, near a creek flowing toward the Savannah River. As colonial settlement spread into the interior, the waterway gave its name to a community and a place of worship. In 1772 the preacher Daniel Marshall organised a Baptist church near Kiokee Creek. It became a centre for a growing congregation in the backcountry, where settlers established farms and travelled between Augusta and the settlements farther inland.