Hartwood Presbyterian Church

The Writing on the Wall

This is Hartwood Presbyterian Church, which Federal troops occupied during the Civil War. They removed and burned all the woodwork, leaving only the bare plaster walls. On November 24, 1862, Capt. George Johnson, 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry, ...

William C. Jason Comprehensive High School

First African-American Secondary School In Sussex County

Named after the first African-American

president of Delaware State College, the

school opened in October 1950. Funds were

provided in the will of H. Fletcher

Brown a local philanthropist, and by the

State General ...

Ford's Chapel United Methodist Church

(organized 1808)

The Western Conference, Oct. 1-7, 1808 in Williamson County, Tenn., sent James Gwinn to the "great bend" of the Tenn. River. Gwinn organized at the home of Richard and Betsy Ford, the first Methodist Society of the six in ...

Providence United Methodist Church

In 1865 the Maryland Conference of the Methodist

Protestant Church established a “mission” or

charge circuit in Sussex County. At the time

local members of that faith were meeting nearby

in Rogers School. Services were held in the

schoolhouse until ...

Prospect A.M.E. Church

The roots of African-American Methodism in this community can be traced to the organization of a black “class” within the local Methodist society in the 1790’s. By the 1830’s a group of residents had affiliated themselves with Bishop Richard Allen’s ...

Flint River Primitive Baptist Church

Commemorating the first organized church in

Alabama. Established Oct. 2, 1808, upon the

Doctrine of Salvation by Grace, as attested by

her Articles of Faith.

The first building was erected 1 mi. N.E.

Articles of Faith

We believe:

1. In only one true and living ...

Flint River Primitive Baptist Church

Commemorating the first organized church in

Alabama. Established Oct. 2, 1808, upon the

Doctrine of Salvation by Grace, as attested by

her Articles of Faith.

The first building was erected 1 mi. N.E.

Articles of Faith

We believe:

1. In only one true and living ...

Ancient Paths

In the ancient past Delaware was crossed by a network of Paths first forged by large animals and herds of buffalo migrating along the coast searching for food and salt deposits. The first settlers in this first state were The ...

St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church

Incorporated on June 21, 1794, St. Paul’s

P.E. Church is the oldest organized church

in Georgetown. Prior to completion of the

first church building, services were held in

the Sussex County Courthouse. In 1805, a

special lottery sanctioned by the ...

William Hooper Councill

Founder

"...A tower of knowledge, of strength, of power ...Let us build..."

Dr. William Hooper Councill served as President of Alabama A&M University and was the catalyst for its early development from its founding in 1875 until his death in 1909. Born ...