Bethel Methodist Church

This church was organized in 1835 in what was then rural Richland District. The first sanctuary here, built soon afterwards, burned in a forest fire in 1867; the cemetery dates from as early as 1862. The second sanctuary, built in ...

Bethel A.M.E. Church

Incorporated in 1843

Moved in 1845 to the

building called “The

Seminary” standing here

at that time.

Marker is on Park Avenue (County Route 35), on the right when traveling south.

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Bethel Baptist Church

Bethel Baptist Church was founded in 1884 by black members of nearby Sandy Level Baptist Church seeking to organize a separate congregation. They met at first in a brush arbor, then built a frame sanctuary here in 1892. It was ...

Bethel Church

Union Command Meets

Lee vs. Grant - The 1864 Campaign

"At the church…the 9th Corps was marching past, and Burnside was sitting, like a comfortable abbot, in one of the pews, surrounded by his buckish staff whose appearance is the reverse of ...

Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church

Mother of 5 Churches

[Front]:

1768 Bethel Methodist Society

Org. at Indian Springs by

Rev. Geo. Whitefield and families of

Arnold, Giraud, Taylor, Sullivan

Mitchell, Box, Wood

1825 Rec'd. Meth. Cone Rev. Barnett Smith

1842 Sunday School Org.

G.L. Riley, Elisha South, J.M. Eppes

Rev. John Humbert, Judge T.J. Sullivan

1854-1884 ...

Florence Bethel Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America

The "Mother Church" of the Presbytery, Florence Cumberland Colored Presbyterian Church originated in 1898 on property deeded by the city. Led, in 1918, by Rev. Holt Smith, it bought property on Alabama Street and build a frame structure. In 1948 ...

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

In 1839 a group of black Detroit citizens formed the Colored Methodist Society, which became the core of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. The group held meetings in a hall which was donated by the Detroit Common Council. The ...

Bethel A.M.E. Church

Founded 1808 & known as the African Church. Chartered in 1818. Located nearby in early years, church was site of area's first school for colored children, 1831, & statewide civil rights convention, 1841. Congregation moved to Wylie Avenue, 1872; to ...

Bethel Church

Two miles west. The first church was built by Colonel Robert Doak in 1779. Captain James Tate, an elder, led in the battles of Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse (1781) a company drawn mainly from this church. In the churchyard 23 ...

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

It is believed that parishioners of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church were worshiping in a private residence on North Street by 1859. The church eventually moved to a site on Church Street to accommodate the growing congregation. On March 2, ...