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  1. Religion in the Piney Woods
    date September 8, 1822map PERRY, Mississippitags Church/Religious-Activity

    In the early 1820s, the Carter family of Georgia migrated with their aging mother to Piney Woods, Mississippi, a rural backcountry 40 miles from Mobile, Alabama along the Pascagoula River. In letters to family who remained in Georgia religion was frequently mentioned; Evangelical Christianity was central to the Carter family. In 1822, we had regular preaching this year once in three weeks within...