Salem First United Methodist Church

In 1833 the Methodist Church sent missionaries to Oregon with the first settlement established about ten miles north of Salem at what is now Willamette Mission State Park. Jason Lee, a Salem Oregon pioneer, missionary, civic leader and co-founder of ...

The Church in Salem Village

1630 – 1930

To this church, rent by the witchcraft frenzy, came in 1697 the Reverend Joseph Green, aged twenty-two. He induced the mischief makers to confess, reconciled the factions, established the first public school, and became noted for his skill ...

Salem United Methodist Church

The origin of this church can be traced to the organization of a local Methodist society soon after the American Revolution. By 1790 the Sandy Branch Society was joining regularly for worship, holding services in the open air and in ...

Salem Church

This church, four miles north, was used as a field hospital, June, 1864, following the action an Nance's Shop, where the Union cavalryman Gregg, guarding a wagon train, was attacked by Wade Hampton. Gregg was driven from the field but ...

Salem (Black River) Presbyterian Church

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This house of worship, commonly called Brick Church, was founded by Scotch-Irish settlers in 1759 on land given by Capt. David Anderson. Original log meeting-house was replaced by frame building and named Salem Presbyterian Church (1768). The first ...

Mount Salem Church

Circa 1864

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

Marker is on County Route 579, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Salem Baptist Church

Pike County's oldest church

Organized by Dr. C.T. Mahoney

Since 1824 it has enriched

the life of this section

Here were organized:

Salem Baptist Association, 1839

Baptist General Assoc., 1868

Ladies Aid Society, 1891

Salem-Troy Baptist Assoc., 1904

Women's Missionary Society, 1905

First a log structure, the church had occupied ...

Beth-Salem Presbyterian Church

Beth-Salem Presbyterian Church was organized on December 20, 1785, in the wilderness about three miles West of this site, under the leadership of Mr. John Newton, then a licentiate. It was the first of a chain of Presbyterian churches established ...

Jerusalem (Ebenezer) Church

»— 6 mi.—?

Built in 1767- 69 by Lutheran Protestants who came to Georgia in 1734 after being exiled from Catholic Salzburg in Europe, the church is officially name Jerusalem Church. It stands on the site of a wooden building probably ...

Salem Methodist Church

1.8 miles east of here stood Salem Methodist Church (1836-1918), scene of the initial violence resulting from the schism between northern and southern Methodists in 1846. A northern circuit preacher was dragged from the pulpit by members of the congregation. ...