Crestview, Georgia
Crestview is an unincorporated community in Baker County, Georgia, United States. Geography Crestview is located at the intersections of Crestview Road, Willow Nook Road, and Crossroads Cemetery Road. The town is also full of various county dirt roads, such as Smith Lane. DeSoto Springs is the area's primary water source. It was a point at which Herman DeSoto took camp. Civil Crestview is home to many abandoned buildings and homes. It has one store, D. G. Jones General Store, which is located on DeSoto Springs Plantation. Cemeteries Taylor White Cemetery is the area's independent cemetery. Churches The town is home to two churches: Christ Methodist Church (primarily White) and Christ Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church (primarily Black). Before the Civil War, Christ Methodist was attended by both White plantation owners and Black slaves. Then it was no more than a hand-hewn log structure. At the close of the war the freed Blacks formed their own church five miles from the original site. The land was provided by a White planter. This building was destroyed by fire along with all of the church records, a new church was built and remained until the early 1940s. The present church is a continuation