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Photographer: Sandra Hughes Tidwell
Taken: December 6, 2009
Caption: Brick Church circa in 1879
Additional Description: The Mooresville Brick Church is only one of five remaining structures of the Revival Brick Churches built in Alabama in the early 19th century. The bricks of the church are unusually symmetrical for handmade bricks. The property on which the church stands was donated by Governor Thomas Bibb and his wife Parmelia, to be used for a community church but the church was soon acquired by the Cumberland Presbyterian who owned the building until the Methodist bought it in 1898. When the Cumberland Presbyterian split among themselves in 1900 they removed everything from the church except the chandelier given by Mary "Mollie" Walton. The altar rail and current pews are thought to have come from the Methodist. The church has also served as a Baptist Mission. Regular worship services have not been held in the church since the 1960s. In October 1994 the United Methodist Church conducted a demonstration service and handed the keys of the building to the town mayor.
Submitted: January 5, 2022, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p631811
File Size: 1.756 Megabytes

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