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Photographer: Timothy Carr
Taken: August 24, 2013
Caption:
The site of the original founding church in the former Lebanon Community of Russell County, Alabama | Additional Description: The 22 founding church members built their first meeting house on this site in 1837 on what is now Old Columbus Road 2 miles south of today' church. The members spent $220 constructing the hand-hewn 22 by 24 foot log church. The church was then known as Lebanon. The church's early ministers came from the founding families of Barnett, Bullard, Capps, Edwards, Falkenberry, Mizell and Williams. By the mid 1850's, Lebanon was straining at the seems, and the congregation looked northward toward the emerging and fast-growing community of Opelika. The Lebanon congregation split off, one group of members organized another church several miles further south of the original church. The other group built their first new church home on a lot north of the railroad in Opelika in 1857.
Submitted: August 25, 2013, by Timothy Carr of Birmingham, Alabama.
Database Locator Identification Number: p252271
File Size: 0.484 Megabytes
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