Original Site of Lakeside United Methodist Church

1866-1968

Marker Front:

The Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church purchased this property in 1866, and the congregation erected a frame building with a brick basement in 1867. The Rev. Howell Echols was the first pastor. In 1886, a brick building, ...

Original site of the First Catholic Church in 1887

The present, remodeled bank building was constructed in 1936 as the second St. Malchy Church. In the early 1980's the structure was sold to the newly formed Sierra National Bank, which was acquired by the Bank of the Sierra in ...

Original Site of Third Baptist Church

The First African American Baptist Church West of the Rocky Mountains

In August 1852, Abraham Brown, Thomas Bundy, Thomas Davenport, Willie Denton, Harry Fields, George Lewis, Fielding Spotts, and Eliza and William Davis organized the church in the Davis home. ...

Site of Original Church

Dedicated October 9, 1791 and

destroyed by floods in 1828

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