Villa Rica, Georgia
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Villa Rica is a city in Carroll and Douglas counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. Villa Rica is placed in the Atlanta metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, Villa Rica had a population of 16,970.
City Hall on Bankhead Highway
Still standing, Wicks Tavern was built in 1830 and was major competition for Hix Tavern.
Handbill originally distributed to announce a land sale in Villa Rica, Georgia, c. 1882.
Villa Rica First Presbyterian Church
Thomas A. Dorsey
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Thomas Andrew Dorsey was an American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music. He penned 3,000 songs, a third of them go
Villa Rica, Georgia
…building was erected in 1888–1890 on Beecher Hill (now Wilson Street) and was dedicated on the second Sunday in May 1892. This was the building in which Thomas A. Dorsey learned about music. The second church building, built in 1928, was the first black-owned church building in Carroll County. This building was destroyed…
Thomas Dorsey during his "Georgia Tom" blues period, late 1920s
Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago, 1964, where Dorsey was music director for 50 years