The only historic church on the Lake Martin shoreline gets its first steeple
A beloved Lake Martin landmark got some sprucing up last month when a 14-foot fiberglass steeple was added to the roofline at New Hope Baptist Church on Young’s Ferry Road, across the lake from Wicker Point.
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