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Freedmen organized this African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1873. The first sanctuary, a frame building at Mulberry and Birch streets, was shared with a group of Missionary Baptists. In the late 1870s, the Methodists built their own chapel at this site and adopted the congregational name Mount Vernon. The present brick sanctuary, with influences of the Gothic Revival style, was completed in the 1920s. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1986
Mount Vernon A.M.E. Church is a historical marker in Palestine, Anderson County, dedicated in 1986. It is one of 115 historical markers documented in Anderson County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 227 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.7682, -95.6229 near Palestine. The nearest cataloged historic site is Mount Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, McClure-McReynolds-Fowler Home, and Col. G. R. Howard House.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5001008782. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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