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Mount Vernon A.M.E. Church

  Texas Historical Markers
913 E. Calhoun, Palestine, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 31° 46' 3.0972", -95° 37' 22.5984"
 
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    Freedmen organized this African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1873. The first sanctuary, a frame building at Mulberry and Birch streets, was shared with a group of Missionary Baptists. In the late 1870s, the Methodists built their own chapel at this site and adopted the congregational name Mount Vernon. The present brick sanctuary, with influences of the Gothic Revival style, was completed in the 1920s. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1986

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Mount Vernon A.M.E. Church Historical Marker Location Map, Palestine, Texas