Built in 1888 by Welsh coal miners, the church and its cemetery are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Miners who fought the Tennessee National Guard over the use of convict labor during the Coal Creek War and the church was a . . . — — Map (db m102331) HM
The first meeting of the Clinton Church of Christ occurred during the uncertain times of World War II. Temporary dwellings dotted the landscape of Anderson County as families moved to the area to work on the secret Manhattan Project. The first . . . — — Map (db m215086) HM
First organized in 1831, the church was known as the Methodist Episcopal Church. At the General Conference of 1844, the Methodist Episcopal Church officially split into two groups over the issue of slavery. The first Methodist Episcopal church was . . . — — Map (db m215084) HM
Upset by segregationists who intimidated 12 African American pupils at Clinton High School who refused to return to classes, the Reverend Paul Turner, pastor of Clinton's First Baptist Church, met with the pupils on December 4. 1956, when he and two . . . — — Map (db m220585) HM
Opened 1851 - Closed 1942
Church building Stood 47 feet in front of this stone
In Memory of our Dead
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be . . . — — Map (db m70485) HM
Built in 1943 near the main business district (Jackson Square), this standard Army chapel was soon known with the Manhattan Project as "The Chapel-on-the-Hill". On 30 September 1943 it was dedicated for Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant worship. The . . . — — Map (db m112102) HM
This was Lot 44 of the original town plan. A log church was built here in 1815. The Presbyterians used it, and built the present church in 1817. In 1856, a Catholic congregation bought the building, selling to the Northern Methodists in 1894. These . . . — — Map (db m25049) HM
The Pikeville AME Zion Church is the oldest African-American church still operating in Bledsoe County. The core of the church building dates from about 1870 when it served as the Freedmen's Bureau school. The AME Zion congregation's use of the . . . — — Map (db m184534) HM
Gospel music publisher and hymnodist Robert Emmett (R.E.) Winsett composed many sacred songs, “Jesus Is Coming Soon” being the most well known, but his reputation rests more upon his publishing endeavor. The R. E. Winsett Publishing Company produced . . . — — Map (db m153659) HM
This village, 8 mi. W., was founded by a colony of Quakers from New Garden,
N. C., in the 1790's. The Newberry Meeting officially recognized it in 1808. The first Friends' organization in the county, it is the only one surviving. Friendsville . . . — — Map (db m150763) HM
Members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) came to Blount County in the 1790s looking for a place to worship in peace. Hardworking and industrious, opposing war and slavery, they developed the land and founded the prosperous settlements . . . — — Map (db m81361) HM
This Presbyterian church was
established in 1786. Its first pastor
was the Rev. Gideon Blackburn
who served an extensive circuit
in the area. Elizabeth Paxton
Houston, mother of Sam Houston,
is buried here. — — Map (db m150789) HM
Site of the original settlement of Maryville. Here Captain John Craig in 1785 erected a fort on Pistol Creek to protect settlers from Indian raids. In 1793 as many as 280 men, women, and children lived within its walls for several months, surviving . . . — — Map (db m58839) HM
This Presbyterian church was founded in 1786 by Rev. Archibald Scott, of Virginia. In 1792, Rev. Gideon Blackburn built a log church here; the stones in the present wall are from a church which replaced it in 1829; the brick church replaced it in . . . — — Map (db m28733) HM
William B. Scott, Sr., a free Black, migrated to East Tennessee in 1847 after increased racial tension in North Carolina. He made harnesses and saddles in Blount County’s Quaker community of Friendsville until the Civil War. In Knoxville, during . . . — — Map (db m107600) HM
Early settlers coming down the Great War & Trading Path in 1784-85 camped here; it was the scene of their first death and burial. In 1786 the Rev. Archibald Scott of Virginia organized a Presbyterian congregation in the area; the church was built . . . — — Map (db m81365) HM
John McPherson entered Cherokee territory as a miller and was an early settler in the Eureka Valley. In 1834 he was one of five founding members of Candies Creek Baptist Church. An active Unionist during the Civil War, he was imprisoned by the . . . — — Map (db m177951) HM
On last Friday two Cherokee men came into our camps … for the purpose of ascertaining whether any thing could be done for their relief. … They said they left their families sick and one of them said he had lost one of his children … . . . — — Map (db m177975) HM
Beginning in 192o, this site has variously served publishing, educational, worship and administrative ministries of the Church of God. The publishing ministry began with the first issue of “The Evening Light and Church of God Evangel” on March 1, . . . — — Map (db m184506) HM
Completed in December, 1909, this chapel was erected for and by a small colony of Italian, Bavarian, and English Catholic families answering the call of Indiana industrial baron, Harvey M. Lafollette, to labor on the railroad, dig coal, and . . . — — Map (db m155314) HM
In July 1825, William and Mary Billingsley Holmes and daughter, Polly Holmes, Christopher and Elizabeth Wood Gist, and Levi McWhirter and wife met in the grove of large oaks directly to the west and organized a Bible school. This was the beginning . . . — — Map (db m156580) HM
Founded in 1822, this Primitive Baptist Church has been in constant use. It holds an annual foot-washing ceremony the first Sunday in May, which is attended by communicants and witnesses from many parts of this and neighboring states. — — Map (db m52585) HM
Founded as Bethel Seminary at McLemoresville in 1842 by the West Tennessee Synod, Cumberland Presbyterian Church, with Rev. Ruben Burrow principal. Incorporated in 1847, it became Bethel College in 1850 and moved here in 1872. It was presented to . . . — — Map (db m52842) HM
Near this site, in 1842, Bethel
College had its beginning as Bethel
Seminary, founded by the West
Tennessee Synod of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church. The college
continued here in McLemoresville
until 1872, when it was moved to
McKenzie. . . . — — Map (db m194269) HM
McLemoresville was settled in early 1800. In 1820 missionaries Rev. Benjamin Peeples and Rev. Lewis Garrett met at the Public Land Office to divide their territory. By 1859 a church was organized. From 1886 when the northern Methodist Episcopal . . . — — Map (db m194273) HM
Formerly enslaved, the Reverend Levi Price and his wife Lizzie Price were members of the original church. The Reverend Levi Price served as the first pastor of Reedy Creek Missionary Baptist Church, the only African American Church in the area. On . . . — — Map (db m130428) HM
Nearby Buffalo Creek is one of numerous place names in the Southern Appalachian mountains that serve as reminders that the buffalo, or American bison, was once plentiful in the region. In 1769 Daniel Boone narrowly escaped being trampled by a . . . — — Map (db m184052) HM
Buffalo Creek Christian Church organized here in 1830. In 1867 Buffalo Male & Female Institute was established by Rev. W.G. Barker on land given by Joshua Williams. Josephus Hopgood of Ky. purchased it in 1875, naming it Milligan College in 1882, . . . — — Map (db m157861) HM
In this neighborhood, on Sept. 26, 1780, Rev. Samuel Doak conducted religious services for the frontiersmen from Virginia and North Carolina, including the Watauga and other settlements in what is now Tennessee, upon the start of their decisive . . . — — Map (db m47152) HM
Edwin Clifton and his wife, the former Nancy Folks are buried in the old cemetery on a hillside above Hwy.12, opposite the spring used by the early members when their meeting house stood nearby. Many graves there are not marked; however, Edwin's . . . — — Map (db m165457) HM
(Side A)
The church stood on a hill across Hwy. 12 on Neptune Rd. from 1888 until it was struck by lightning 5/16/1984 and burned to the ground. A grove of trees marks the historic spot. The church was named for Edwin Clifton who built first a . . . — — Map (db m165453) HM
Davis Creek Primitive Baptist Church is believed to be the oldest Primitive Baptist congregation in Tennessee and has continued in the same doctrine since its 1797 constitution. Established in Speedwell to serve the settlers of Yoakum Station, a . . . — — Map (db m204562) HM
The Baptist Church of Christ at Davis Creek constituted the year of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 1797 receiving in election and predestination, carries her own key gives free liberty of conscience to think and speak in love purity and fidelity . . . — — Map (db m205088) HM
(front)
In Memoriam
To keep alive the history of the builders of this, The Big Spring Church House, in the winter of 1795-96. Drew Harrell our ancestor hewed the logs. He and the Rev. Tidence Lane erected the church house. Drew Harrell . . . — — Map (db m151545) HM
Hermitage Springs was first called Trace because of its location in Big Trace Creek valley. The community existed of only a few scattered residences and a small log church that became known as the Hermitage Springs Church of Christ. Established . . . — — Map (db m177398) HM
With 1874 land grants, Needham Moore, D.H. James, and James Alexander Cox, all descendants of Moses Cox, for whom Coxville was named, the original — trustees established the Cox's Chapel Church of Christ and Cemetery. All three are interred here . . . — — Map (db m180305) HM
1817
Cast by Revere and Sons, Boston, Massachusetts 1817-1824
Hung in steeple of 2nd Congressional Church, Marblehead, Massachusetts
1825-1886
Placed in Old North Congregational Church, Marblehead
1886
Purchased by J.J.H. Gregory . . . — — Map (db m69230) HM
Cane Ridge Cumberland Presbyterian Church, built in 1859, replaced a log building which occupied land donated by Edwin Austin & Thomas Boaz in 1826. One of the best known pastors was Hugh Bone Hill who also preached at the Jerusalem Church in . . . — — Map (db m146619) HM
In 1871, District 6 school commissioners John Briley, Benjiah Gray and Jason Austin bought one acre of land from James Thompson for an African American school. In 1873, African American members of the Benevolent Society of Olive Branch No. 38 . . . — — Map (db m147704) HM
In 1843, Goodlettsville Cumberland Presbyterian Church was organized near Mansker Creek and was originally known as Mansker Creek Congregation. In January 1848, the church moved to the present location and burned in 1901. The present edifice was . . . — — Map (db m2583) HM
To commemorate
Mansker's Fort, built 1779.
Stood one quarter mile south of Long Hollow Road on west bank of Mansker's Creek one half mile from this spot.
Second Mansker's Fort, built 1783.
Stood half mile north of Long Hollow Road on cast . . . — — Map (db m178474) HM
New Bethel Baptist Church (formerly White's Creek) was organized in 1794 six miles north of Nashville on White's Creek Pike, through the labors of Daniel Brown, Joshua White, Nathan Arnett and Patrick Mooney. It was moved to Dickerson Road in 1837 . . . — — Map (db m149965) HM
Known as “Muddy Spring” in Andrew Jackson's time, this fast flowing spring was the primary source of water for the fifty to eighty enslaved men, women, and children who lived in the nearby Field Quarter.
Along with its life-sustaining . . . — — Map (db m85382) HM
In 1823, Andrew Jackson donated the land, a portion of the funds, and the labor of his slaves to build this simple church. There's little doubt that it was the encouragement of Rachel Jackson, a devout Presbyterian, that prompted her husband's . . . — — Map (db m182525) HM
At a time when America was growing in more than material ways, the Jacksons, too, were touched by matters spiritual. In the early 1800s, the stresses of a young nation on the move to new political, geographic, and economic areas produced rapid . . . — — Map (db m182530) HM
In June 1904 near this spot, "The Morning Star" moored for repairs. Seventh-day Adventist visionary Ellen White, mother of boat owner Edson White, saw the nearby Ferguson Farm for sale and told educators Edward A. Sutherland and Percy T. Magan to . . . — — Map (db m162447) HM
Madison College was founded in 1904 as Nashville Agricultural Normal Institute by Seventh-day Adventists on a farm of 412 acres. A sanitarium and campus industries were integral to the plan of work and study for students training for careers in . . . — — Map (db m147701) HM
In 1910, Horace Greeley Hill, Sr. and wife Mamie began buying land around their West Nashville home Cliff Lawn. After Hill Sr., an entrepreneur and philanthropist, died in 1942, H.G. Hill, Jr. took over the family business and began developing that . . . — — Map (db m147414) HM
In 1976 Kurdish Immigrants began arriving in Nashville and continued to emigrate here, fleeing persecutions in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey were they were ethnic minorities following the Treaty of Lausanne. In 2022, around 20,000 Kurds lived in . . . — — Map (db m214619) HM
Soon after the Civil War, freed slave families established farms and dairies in this community named for Lake Providence Missionary Baptist Church. The church was
founded in 1868 by Rev. Larry A. Thompson, a traveling missionary. The first church . . . — — Map (db m147128) HM
Due to the lack of records kept by slave owners, including those at Belle Meade, it is often difficult to piece together the full story of the daily lives and experiences of enslaved individuals. In particular, and particularly disheartening, is . . . — — Map (db m158289) HM
Centenary United Methodist Church
Rev. William Gower built the first Gower's Chapel on his farm in 1805. A larger chapel, erected in 1850 on Gower land, also served as the local schoolhouse. On Oct. 5, 1884, the newly named Centenary Methodist . . . — — Map (db m147425) HM
In 1906, Norwegian-born Andres Ivarson Myhr and wife Minnie Bolton Myhr acquired land from Tabitha DeMoss and built "Maple Row," named for trees planted along the driveway. Part of Myhr Farm, this was the first house in Bellevue to have indoor . . . — — Map (db m147420) HM
Erected in 1890 and named for Ireland's patron saint, this Second Empire style church was built to serve South Nashville's growing Irish Catholic population. Until 1954, the Sisters of Mercy taught a grade school here. Since the 1890s, the Irish . . . — — Map (db m74367) HM
One of the last remaining buildings on the Square, 206 Public Square was home to the African Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday School Union beginning in 1886, when Rev. Charles S. Smith purchased the building. The A.M.E. Sunday School Union, . . . — — Map (db m206241) HM
1. First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill (1848) 2. Gay Street Christian Church (1859) 3. Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church (1887) 4. St. Andrews Presbyterian Church (1898) 5. St. John AME Church (1863) 6. Spruce Street Baptist Church (1848) These . . . — — Map (db m147484) HM
Front Organized in 1829, Christ Church was Nashville's first Episcopal parish. The present Victorian Gothic church designed by Francis Hatch Kimball of New York, opened for service on Dec. 16, 1894; the tower , by local architect Russell E. . . . — — Map (db m220816) HM
From 1814 to 1955 this was the site of the First Presbyterian Church. President Andrew Jackson was received into the church in 1838. James K. Polk was inaugurated governor here in 1839. The building designed in the Egyptian style by William . . . — — Map (db m121842) HM
Formerly located at his site was First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill, headquarters of the 1960s Sit-In Movement, led by Rev. Kelly Miller Smith. Strategy sessions, non-violence workshops, mass meetings, victory celebrations, and administrative . . . — — Map (db m74333) HM
On May 18, 1875, members of several Nashville churches gathered at the Christian Church (138 Vine Street) after a religious revival meeting and organized the Nashville Young Men's Christian Association. Its first building, erected in 1886 on Church . . . — — Map (db m147487) HM
The Reverend Nelson G. Merry, born enslaved in 1824 in Kentucky, was brought to Tennessee by his master. At age 16, Merry's widowed mistress willed him to the First Baptist Church. He was freed in 1845. Merry preached to the "colored" mission of . . . — — Map (db m147482) HM
The Union Gospel Tabernacle was built in 1892
after steamboat captain Thomas Ryman heard
Rev. Sam P. Jones speak at a tent revival in
1885. Ryman commissioned architect Hugh C.
Thompson to build the Gothic Revival church,
which quickly became a . . . — — Map (db m198893) HM
In 1854, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, selected Nashville as the site for its publishing house and converted a warehouse on the Public Square for that use. During the Civil War, the building was used by Union forces for government printing . . . — — Map (db m206229) HM
Pioneer Ministers
1785-1824 Thomas Craighead of NC•
1801-1833 William Hume of Scotland
Pastors, First Church,
1814 Gideon Blackburn, D.D. of VA•
1820 Allan D. Campbell, D.D. of England•
1828 Obadiah Jennings, D.D. of NJ•
1833 . . . — — Map (db m221162) HM
Ten Colonies were sent out from here by the First Church
Historical
1785 First Preaching in Cumberland Settlement by Thomas Craighead.
1798 Scotch Seceders formed congregation.
1801 Rev. William Hume placed in charge.
1812 First . . . — — Map (db m221163) HM
The First Methodist Church erected in the Cumberland Settlement was located on the Public Square in present day Nashville, Tennessee in the year 1787.
This monument was located here with the approval of County Judge C. Beverly Briley and the . . . — — Map (db m206250) HM
Vine Street Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) traces its beginning to 1820 and the Baptist Church of Nashville. Formally founded eight years later, with 218 members, the church met near this site in an 1821 building on Church Street, then in . . . — — Map (db m188771) HM
Nashville's Jewish community began in the 1840s. Many early families were immigrants fleeing oppression in Germany, Russia, and Poland. Completed in 1876, the Vine Street Temple, with nine Byzantine domes was Nashville's first synagogue, for 80 . . . — — Map (db m147730) HM
Founded in 1866 under the direction of Rev. Randall B. Vandavall, First Baptist Church East Nashville built this Classical Revival building between 1928 and 1931, during the height of Rev. W.S. Ellingson's career. Nashville artist Francis Euphemia . . . — — Map (db m145790) HM
Rock City was an African American community established c. 1881, which was soon followed by the founding of First Baptist Church Rock City. Named for a rock quarry in the area, the approx. boundaries were Cahal Ave. to the south, Branch St. to the . . . — — Map (db m147714) HM
Reverend William L. 'Bill' Barnes, a pastor, civil rights leader and teacher, was often called the 'conscience of Nashville.' Rev. Barnes passionately agitated for legislation that would help those marginalized by race, social class, sexual . . . — — Map (db m147529) HM
Founded in South Nashville in 1865, Clark Memorial moved to North Nashville in 1936 and to this location in 1945. The church was central to the Civil Rights movement in Nashville, with activist James M. Lawson conducting classes here in 1959 on . . . — — Map (db m147778) HM
Marshall Keeble was born to ex-slave parents Robert and Mittie Keeble in Rutherford County on December 7, 1878. At age 18, Keeble delivered his first sermon at Jackson Street Church of Christ where he remained a member until his death. One of the . . . — — Map (db m213320) HM
After the Civil War, Methodist clergymen organized the Freedman's Aid Society to elevate education for African Americans. In 1876, with contributions form the Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church North and the Meharry brothers, Samuel, . . . — — Map (db m207837) HM
William J. Faulkner, a Congregational minister, folklorist and author, lived at this site from 1935 to 1947. He served as Fisk University's Dean of Men from 1934 to 1942 and as Dean of the Chapel from 1943 to 1953, During his tenure, he reorganized . . . — — Map (db m147901) HM
Assumption Church
Nashville’s second oldest Catholic church, dedicated Aug. 14, 1859, its rectory on right was added in 1874, school on left in 1879. The present altar, windows, and steeple were added later. The Germantown neighborhood grew . . . — — Map (db m4517) HM
Women from the Methodist Training School founded Warioto Settlement House in 1908. Renamed Centenary Methodist Institute, CMI moved to this location by 1921. CMI worked with rural migrant families in the North Nashville area called Kalb Hollow, . . . — — Map (db m147773) HM
This cabin was home, periodically, up to 1882 of educator, editor, and religious leader David Lipscomb and wife, Margaret Zellner Lipscomb. The Associated Ladies for Lipscomb moved it here from Bell's Bend in 1985. In 1903 the Lipscombs built . . . — — Map (db m53347) HM
Vine Street Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) traces its beginning to 1820 and the Baptist Church of Nashville. Formally founded in 1828, the congregation met downtown on North Vine Street (now Seventh Avenue North) until moving here in 1957. . . . — — Map (db m185889) HM
Bishop Joseph Warren Walker, III began as pastor at Mt. Zion Baptist Church with 175 members in 1992. He has grown the church to over 25,000 members and two additional locations to go with the original church in the Historic Jefferson St. . . . — — Map (db m209147) HM
C.T. Vivian moved to Nashville in 1955 to enroll in the American Baptist Theological Seminary. That same year, he and other ministers founded the Nashville Christian Leadership Conference, which organized and trained students to embark on a movement . . . — — Map (db m209143) HM
Jefferson Street is home to a number of churches that are crucial to the cultural and historic fabric of the community. These houses of worship serve as landmarks, gathering places and institutions that help to improve the physical and social . . . — — Map (db m208971) HM
Dr. LaFayette, an ordained minister, earned a B.A. from American Baptist Theological Seminary. Throughout his career he has been a Civil Rights Movement activist, minister, educator, lecturer and an authority on the strategy on nonviolent social . . . — — Map (db m209145) HM
Dr. Harris was appointed President of American Baptist College in 1990. He is also the Director of the Kelly Miller Smith Institute on Black Church Studies and Assistant Dean for Black Church Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Dr. . . . — — Map (db m209148) HM
Reverend Brooks received his degree from the American Baptist College. He is presently the pastor of Saint James Missionary Baptist Church, where he has served since June 1954. Rev. Brooks was elected president of Missionary Baptist State Convention . . . — — Map (db m209162) HM
James Bevel received his B.A. from the American Baptist Theology Seminary in Nashville in 1961. He was a civil rights activist, minister, lyricist, and human rights advocate that gained a national reputation was one of Martin Luther King's top . . . — — Map (db m209138) HM
Pastor Thomas has led the Jefferson Street Missionary Baptist Church since 1971. He studied at the American Baptist Theological Seminary and was ordained as a minister in 1970. Reverend Thomas has always been a spokesman for the poor and . . . — — Map (db m209165) HM
The J.W. Friers Realty Company was founded by Mr. Frierson in the early 1900's. For 52 years his business was in the center of the black business district at 431 Cedar St. (Charlotte). He later moved into the building he built at 1310 Jefferson . . . — — Map (db m209007) HM
In 1958 White helped co-fund the Nashville Christian Leadership Conference. After Rev. Kelly Miller Smith left he became the NCLC president. During his tenure, he guided the NCLC's efforts to push for black employment in city and state government as . . . — — Map (db m209052) HM
Dr. Buchanan became the pastor of the historic Fifteenth Avenue Baptist church in 1994. In 2001 the church was recognized by a national research team as one of only 300 churches, from among 100,000 Protestant and Catholic churches in the nation, as . . . — — Map (db m209164) HM
Rev. Smith became pastor of First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill in 1951, a post he would retain until his death in 1984. He was president of the Nashville NAACP in 1956 and founded the Nashville Christian Leadership Council in 1958. He also helped to . . . — — Map (db m209161) HM
In 1896, Boyd moved to Nashville to establish the National Baptist Publishing Board with the goal of providing black Baptists with religious printings, primarily periodicals and Sunday School materials. By 1906 it was the largest African American . . . — — Map (db m209163) HM
Ernest Rip Patton
1940-2021
Ernest Rip Patton attended Tenn. Agricultural & Industrial State University where he joined the Nashville Student Movement, attended meetings at local churches - including his own, Gordon United Memorial Methodist . . . — — Map (db m229870) HM
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