Bethel Hill Missionary Baptist Church

Bethel Hill Missionary Baptist Church (HM1DVD)

Location: Thomaston, AL 36783 Marengo County
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Country: United States of America
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N 32° 17.984', W 87° 32.107'

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Following the Civil War and emancipation, newly freed African Americans, who had worshiped in the Bethel Church in McKinley while enslaved, established their own Bethel Church in a wooden house at the rear of the current church site. In the mid-1880s, this black Bethel Church became Bethel Hill Missionary Baptist Church. Elizabeth Borden deeded five acres of land to the church in 1894, and Rev. J.A. Lawson led the effort to erect a new building the same year. The structure was bricked during the pastorate of I.C. Acoff in 1936. Until the mid 1950s, McKinley School for African American elementary grade students was attached to the church. Original members of the church are buried in the church yard cemetery.
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Year Placed2011
Placed ByAlabama Historical Association
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Date Added Friday, September 26th, 2014 at 9:27am PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)16S E 449620 N 3573785
Decimal Degrees32.29973333, -87.53511667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 32° 17.984', W 87° 32.107'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds32° 17' 59.04" N, 87° 32' 6.42" W
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Area Code(s)334
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 119 Co Hwy 38, Thomaston AL 36783, US
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