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ATHENS — Materials belonging to historic Saint Paul’s Church, Augusta’s oldest congregation, are now freely available online. The Digital Library of Georgia has released a collection of archival documents belonging to the church including marriage registers, historical extracts, print histories, articles, clippings, booklets, calling cards, and correspondence that account for the church’s early history, church conventions, centennial celebrations, and burials. “Founded in 1750, St. Paul’s has a triple life as an active congregation, as a physical space encompassing buildings and a graveyard, and as a historic parish of the Episcopal Church,” said Susan Yarborough, chair of the St. Paul’s Church history committee. “The oldest identified grave in its graveyard dates to 1783. Past parishioners of Saint Paul’s church include a signer of the U. S. Constitution, five governors of Georgia, six Confederate generals, the namesakes of several

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