Houston Museum in Port Wentworth

Houston Before & After

Many are unaware that the roots of Memorial Day stemmed from Charleston, SC in the Gullah/Geechee Nation on May 1, 1865 as 3,000 Gullah/Geechee children led ano...ther 7000 people to the Washington Race Horse and Jockey Club grounds which had been converted to an outdoor prison during the United States Civil War. Tune in to this and learn the @GullahGeechee story of the holiday which we call "Decoration Day." See more

Check out these interesting stories about Black history unpublished across America.

PROJECT UPDATE: The City of Port Wentworth is in the beginning stages of completing the bathrooms for the Houston Museum. This action brings us one step closer to opening the doors to you, the public. We will post project updates as we receive. We look forward to progress!

VIDEO: Throwback Thursday "The Battle of Monteith Swamp" Thank you to the Lamar Institute for this very interesting short documentary about the Civil War Battle of Monteith which happened here in Port Wentworth off of Hwy 30. #tbt #VisitPW

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#TBT Houston Museum Open House event 2012 #VisitPW #PWChamber #PWGA

This is a terrific resource to have when researching the history of our area.

What a great story!

"Praise Houses were located on each plantation or large community. A place of worship was felt to be something that should be provided to the plantation workers even after slavery. When we research the history of each of these, now churches, once they were formally organized they were now churches, no longer praise houses, we will find that each one came from a neighboring plantation. White Oak, Drakie Plantation, Mount Moriah, Godley Plantation, Houston, Rice Hope Plantation and Richmond, Richmond Plantation." - Della Steele

We are turning back the clock! This is a photo of the Houston Baptist Church BEFORE the renovation process began. What a difference! #tbt #throwbackthursday #pwga

Do you know the story of the historic Houston Museum in Port Wentworth? Houston Baptist Church and its adjourning cemetery were organized in 1886 under the leadership of Reverend Ulysses L. Houston, minister of First Bryan Baptist Church in Savannah. A significant religious and political leader in the African-American community, Houston attended the meeting at General Sherman’s Savannah headquarters in January 1865 that resulted in Special Field Order No. 15 (the redistribut...ion of confiscated coastal land in forty-acre tracts to newly freed blacks.) Houston also served a term in Georgia’s Reconstruction legislature. Established in the tradition of earlier plantation praise houses intended to Christianize the enslaved populations of rural plantations, Houston Baptist Church served the African-Americans of Rice Hope Plantation. Houston Baptist Church continued to serve the local community until the 1970’s. The original structure collapsed in 2007 after a terrible storm in Port Wentworth. Today, the property is owned by the City of Port Wentworth. #pwga See more