Shaffer Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Structure, circa 1893, is Muncie's oldest standing public school building. Purchased by church congregation, circa 1928. Rallying point in August 1930 when bodies of two African-American men, lynched in Marion, were brought to Muncie for embalmment by church's pastor J.E. Johnson, a mortician.

Marker is at the intersection of East Highland Avenue and North Wolfe Street, on the right when traveling east on East Highland Avenue.

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