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Sacred
Harp
"Years
before there was a church in this area, the Sacred Harp Singers would
meet at people's houses and sing. And then, later, they used to meet at
an old schoolhouse which was called Johnson School and it was located
on what is now Highway 674. But it disbanded and it was reorganized here
at this church, the best that we can find out, on the 5th Sunday in May
1924" -
Author unknown
This hymnal
is the only one known to have been used in frontier Florida. Although
there was no church nearby in the 1850's, the settlers would gather on
Sundays to exchange news and to sing from this ancient book.
The four
shaped notes- Fa, Sol, La, and Mi - were meant for those who could not
read music.
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