Penfield, Georgia, United States was established shortly after 1829 in Greene County, and named in honor of Josiah Penfield, a Savannah merchant and silversmith from Fairfield, Connecticut, who bequea
Old Mercer Chapel, built by David Demarest in 1845, now the Penfield Baptist Church.
Mercer University is a private research university in Macon, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1833 as Mercer Institute and gaining university status in 1837, it is the oldest private university in t
Woodcut of Mercer University from an 1877 Macon, Georgia city directory.