Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church Historical Markers
The CME Church is a historically African American denomination of the Methodist tradition.
Note: At different times in its history, CME church has been organized as either the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church or the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. They are the same denomination.
On Railroad Street, on the right when traveling west.
St. James Christian Methodist Episcopal Church founded by Reverend Jack McMillan, a former slave of Midway’s Daniel McMillan. Initially meeting outdoors under a brush arbor, ex-slaves and their children constructed a wood-frame church building soon . . . — — Map (db m60909) HM
Founded by the CME (Christian Methodist Episcopal) Church as the only school for black students in the area in the early 1900’s, Williams’ Temple eventually consolidated with another school in Booker City to form Miles College near Birmingham. . . . — — Map (db m101596) HM
Near Myron Massey Boulevard north of 55th Street, on the left when traveling north.
Miles College Leaders. Students Active During Civil Rights Era
The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church founded Miles College in
Fairfield in 1898. During the 1960s, President Lucius Pitts
encouraged students, faculty and staff to become . . . — — Map (db m153232) HM
On this site in 1871 former slaves constructed one of the first churches and schools for African Americans in Moulton. The Colored Methodist purchased most of the materials used for the building. Mr. and Mrs Isaac Nabors Owen gave land for the . . . — — Map (db m195205) HM
On North Broad Street, 1.1 miles U.S. 80, on the left when traveling north.
Lowndesboro, Alabama
Lowndesboro developed from a small community of early settlers to a thriving township in the 1830’s. The settlers’ plantation interests were maintained in the lowlands along the Alabama River, while they built their . . . — — Map (db m70934) HM
On Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue at Hickory Street, on the right when traveling west on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue.
Patton began his hauling business with two mules and grew to become a prominent real estate entrepreneur and contractor, building many area roads and schools. Patton purchased this site in 1900. According to oral tradition, he commissioned architect . . . — — Map (db m111313) HM
On West Jeff Davis Avenue at South Holt Street, on the right when traveling east on West Jeff Davis Avenue.
The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorized the construction of 41,000 miles of the Interstate Highway System over a ten year period - the largest public works project in American history to . . . — — Map (db m210249) HM
On Manning Road, 0.2 miles west of Nix Road, on the right when traveling east.
The Colony. After the Civil War, African Americans from across the former Confederacy settled here, in a farming community called The Colony. Many owned their own farms and others were sharecroppers. The community established the Mount Olive . . . — — Map (db m229615) HM
On Adeline Street south of Alcatraz Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Hiram Lovell, Architect, 1910, 1914
James W. Plachek, Architect, 1921
The popularity of early movies created a demand for new spaces to accommodate eager audiences. South Berkeley’s first neighborhood theater with 144 stools for seats was . . . — — Map (db m53816) HM
On Northwest 5th Avenue at Northwest 4th Street, on the right when traveling east on Northwest 5th Avenue.
The congregation of the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church first met on May 4, 1896. The church’s original members worshipped in the St. Paul CME Church, and together the congregations bought a parcel of land in 1900 to build a new church. Its construction . . . — — Map (db m110982) HM
On East Jefferson Street at South Meridian Street, on the right when traveling east on East Jefferson Street.
John Gilmore Riley was born in 1857, the son of Sarah and James Riley. He was not formally educated, but was instructed by his Aunt Henrietta. Riley became principal of Lincoln Academy, Tallahassee’s first local high school for African Americans in . . . — — Map (db m79583) HM
On Bentley Street at North Westmoreland Drive, on the right when traveling west on Bentley Street.
In the summer of 1916, a few Black families from the Deep South settled in an area of Orlando called the Black Bottom, so named because when it rained, water settled in the area and remained so long that residents built canoes for transportation. As . . . — — Map (db m128317) HM
On South Pineapple Avenue at State Street, on the right when traveling south on South Pineapple Avenue.
The village of Sarasota's earliest church was chartered in 1891 as the Sarasota Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Manatee Village circuit rider Rev. E. F. Gates brought recently ordained Rev. William B. Tresca to be founding minister. 'Will' had . . . — — Map (db m97111) HM
On Bernard Street, on the right when traveling east.
Bernard Street is one of three historically black residential streets in the North City area, dating back to the Flagler Era. At the west end of the street were a lumber yard, steam laundry, and ice plant that provided employment. Other residents . . . — — Map (db m17913) HM
On Druid Park Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Paine Institute, rechartered as Paine College in 1903, was founded Nov. 1, 1882, by the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Epicscopal Church, South, at the urgent request of Bishop Lucious Holsey of the C.M.E. Church. The first . . . — — Map (db m31673) HM
On West Chestnut Street east of South 9th Street, on the left when traveling east.
Center Street C.M.E. Church
Center Street C.M.E. was outgrowth of M.E. Church South. Became first of denomination in Louisville during early 1870s and hosted 3rd General C.M.E. Conference in 1874. Under leadership of Dr. L. H. Brown, church . . . — — Map (db m161256) HM
On Friendship Road just west of Wright Road, on the right when traveling west.
From 1965-1937, the Friendship CME Church served as the house of worship in Claiborne Parish where the Claiborne Parish Civic League (CLPL), a local activist organization, met and organized plans to bring fair and just changes throughout the parish . . . — — Map (db m180149) HM
Near Legends Avenue (State Highway 149) 0.3 miles south of Interstate 20, on the left when traveling south.
Sarah Jane Richmond, born in 1869, was appointed as
Grambling's first Postmistress on April 16, 1907, a post
she held for four years. She was also a founding
member of Grambling's first Chapter of the Order of
Eastern Star in 1944. Sarah's . . . — — Map (db m159071) HM
On 13th Avenue at 14th Street, on the right when traveling north on 13th Avenue.
Newell Chapel CME Church was involved in Civil Rights meetings and voter registration projects. It was one of three original locations of the Head Start program. The church parsonage was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1968. — — Map (db m111068) HM
On Blanding Street, on the left when traveling west.
(Front) Sidney Park C.M.E. Church was founded in 1886 and has been at this site since 1889. It grew out of a dispute among members of Bethel A.M.E. Church, who left that congregation and applied to join the Colored Methodist Episcopal (now . . . — — Map (db m54970) HM
On 15th Avenue North, 0.1 miles south of Charlotte Avenue (U.S. 70), on the right when traveling south.
The oldest known African-American congregation in Nashville, Capers Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in a brick house near Sulphur Springs in 1832, as the "African Mission” of McKendree Methodist Episcopal Church. . . . — — Map (db m147462) HM
On State Highway 18, 0.2 miles south of Caldwell Road, on the right when traveling south.
"Sonny Boy" Williamson (1914 - 1948), the music innovator responsible for the acceptance of the harmonica as an authentic blues tool, is buried in old Blair's Chapel CME Cemetery, 5 miles southwest. The most influential blues harmonica player of his . . . — — Map (db m51375) HM
On South Highland Avenue (U.S. 45) at Tanyard Street, on the left when traveling south on South Highland Avenue.
On December 15, 1870, in Jackson, the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church was organized by the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The first official CME Church, "Mother Liberty," which stood one block west, was . . . — — Map (db m158684) HM
On Greenwood Street south of East College Street, on the right when traveling north.
Congregation members, under the guidance of the Rev. W.E. Farmer, built Mt. Zion C.M.E. Church in 1896. The oldest African American church in Union City. it is part of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church denomination, which was founded in 1870, . . . — — Map (db m155924) HM
On Scott Street at Princeton Street, on the right when traveling north on Scott Street.
African Americans formed the Rock of Ages Colored Methodist Episcopal congregation c. 1907. The congregation moved into a new church in 1956, when it became the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (CME). The name change signaled the . . . — — Map (db m149044) HM
On Linden Ave (or) Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Ave. (Tennessee Route 278) at S. Lauderdale Street, on the right when traveling west on Linden Ave (or) Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Ave..
(Front Side):
First Baptist Church
The First Baptist Church was designed by architect R. H. Hunt and built in 1906. It is constructed of yellow bricks along a Georgian-architectural style. It housed a congregation of 2,200 members . . . — — Map (db m55466) HM
On Washington Avenue at North Orleans Street, on the right when traveling west on Washington Avenue.
A “Daughter” of Wesley Chapel (later, the First United Methodist Church), Collins Chapel was organized in 1841 and purchased this site in 1859. Names for its first pastor, J. T. C. Collins, it predates the formation of the CME . . . — — Map (db m63368) HM
On Marechalneil Street at Park Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Marechalneil Street.
Mt. Pisgah, founded in 1879 by ex-slaves, is one of the oldest churches and the only Christian Methodist Episcopal (C. M. E.) Church in the Orange Mound community. The Reverend J. C. Powell served as the church's first pastor. Erected in 1929, . . . — — Map (db m200819) HM
On Lewis Street at South Texas Street, on the left when traveling east on Lewis Street.
The C.M.E. Church in Pittsburg was organized by the Rev. Joseph Lloyd, who came here between 1870 and 1889. The name St. Beulah was adopted after this sanctuary was constructed in 1896. The wood frame Gothic revival building has an asymmetrical . . . — — Map (db m201998) HM
On Celestial Road east of Winnwood Road, on the right when traveling west.
Formed in the Freedman's Community of Upper White Rock (settled by former slaves from the nearby Coit, Caruth and Obier plantations), White Rock Chapel Methodist Church was organized after a meeting at the home of George Coit. Founding members . . . — — Map (db m148625) HM
On East Eighth Street at Anthony Street, on the right when traveling east on East Eighth Street.
The first African Americans to live in Oak Cliff were slaves, brought here by settlers such as William H. Hord in 1845 to work the land. The neighborhood that grew here became known as the Tenth Street District. An important African American enclave . . . — — Map (db m98058) HM
On Hembry Street just south of East Purnell Street, on the right when traveling south.
Anthony Hembry and six charter members, all former slaves, organized Lewisville Colored Methodist Episcopal (C.M.E.) Church in 1882. Lewisville had the largest African American population in Denton County and this church, called Lane Chapel after . . . — — Map (db m184232) HM
On West Queen Street west of South Fort Street, on the right when traveling west.
Queen Street was originally the main road through Strasburg, used by wagons, stagecoaches and travelers up and down the Valley. For many years the road was known as the Great Road, but before white settlers, it was a trail through the vast hunting . . . — — Map (db m190834) HM
