Jerusalem Church was established by the Salzburgers in Ebenezer during the 1730s. Ebenezer, left in ruins after the Revolutionary War, had disappeared by 1855, but Jerusalem Church, now known as Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church, still stands. It is one of the few buildings in Georgia left intact after the Revolutionary War.

Some of my ancestors may have helped to build this church. They were there when the colony first settled. I know that my great-grandfather was a blacksmith like his father before him; so there's a strong possibility that great-great granddad was just carrying on the next of many generations of smithies.