Results for Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church - Punta Gorda
Results for Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church - Punta Gorda
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church - Punta Gorda
"Uncle Dan" Smith, a local African American religious leader, constructed a thatch-roofed hut church on this site in 1886. Several white families, including Colonel Albert W. Gilchrist, who later became governor of Florida, were in attendance at the first service. ...