by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
Formed in 1898 by 75 members of St. Matthews AME Church, Spring Hill AME built a frame building after meeting in under a bush arbor. By the 1930s, the church also built a school for local children and maintained it until Reverend Joseph DeLaine organized parents in...
by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
Organized in 1885 from Liberty Hill AME Church, the first St. Mark AME Church was a frame building. In 1905, the congregation purchased a church from the Presbyterian Church and moved it to the site. This building was struck by lightning and burned in 1915. The church...
by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
Organized about 1865, this congregation held its early services in a nearby brush arbor and built a permanent sanctuary here soon afterwards. The original building was torn down in 1918 and the lumber used to construct the new one, which still stands. Church member I....
by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
This church was founded soon after the Civil War by 50 Freedpeople, who held their first services in a stable donated to them by S. A. Rigby. In 1869 the church trustees bought a half-acre lot for a school and in 1870 they bought a one-acre lot for a sanctuary. The...
by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
Constructed in 1860, this rectangular frame building with two large towers on the front corners initially housed a biracial Baptist congregation, with blacks worshipping in the large balcony section. After the Civil War, the black members formed a separate...
