Provided below are details about some of the historic churches that you will find in our area of southwest Alabama.
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This Gothic Revival styled church was built in 1887 and dedicated in May of that year by Dr. J. L. Otts of Greensboro, Alabama. A fellowship hall was …
This Gothic Revival-style church building was constructed in 1894 by a local black architect, Dave Benjamin West. This church, along with its nearby n …
According to the August 5, 1866 minutes of the Uniontown Baptist Church, the Colored portion of the church requested that their White Brothers grant l …
This church congregation was established in 1869 at the Lincoln School by freed slaves and representatives of the American Missionary Association. The …
This church congregation was organized in 1845. The original church building was erected in 1856. It burned on September 17, 1869 and the present bu …
The First Presbyterian Church in Demopolis was organized by the Tuscaloosa Presbytery on November 1, 1839 with nine members. The congregation erected …
This Presbyterian Church was established as a congregation in 1824, worshipping in a smaller church in old Mesopotamia, one mile to the northwest of E …
Organized in 1838, the Presbyterian congregation built the present church in 1893-1894. This is their third church building and the second on this sit …
The Presbyterian Church was organized in 1848 at the home of Col. J. H. Davidson, The Slopes Plantation, which was located south of Uniontown. The con …
The exact date of the founding of the Demopolis Methodist Church is not known. However, the circuit riders of the Marengo Circuit (1826-1840) were ac …
Records indicate that a Conecuh County Circuit first appeared in the Methodist Conference in 1821. The early church was called “Thick Woods” and was …
The first mention of an organized Methodist Church in St. Stephens was 1856 and this church was constructed in 1857. Land for the church was given by …
In the fall of 1902, two men and three ladies filed a declaration to form the Fruitdale Union Chapel Association. Property for the church was purchas …
The original church building was constructed in 1857 on the present site of land. The current building was finished in 1882. It has six box columns an …
This church was founded in 1819 by Rev. Joshua Wilson. In 1854, a two-story building was built on this site. The lower floor was a church and the upp …
During the 1860 – 1880 period, Edward N. Kring (1836-1910) emerged as the leading carpenter and builder of Gainesville. He built several businesses an …
This is Gainesville’s oldest church. The congregation was organized in April of 1837 through the joint efforts of a small group of Southern-born Presb …
The Presbyterians originally built in the area a hewn-log house for a church. It was replaced with a frame building in 1830. The present Greek Reviva …
William J. Hardee (1815 – 1873) graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1838. He served in Florida during the Second Seminole War an …
Shown are pictures of the grave of John A Bell that’s located in the “New” Cemetery at the Old Cahawba Park in Dallas County. On May 23rd, 1856, there …
Presbyterians were among the earliest settlers of Greensboro, AL. In 1823, the first Presbyterian church was organized in Greensboro by Rev. James Hil …
This church is located just east of Highway 5 about midway between Marion and Brent. The church is on a hill overlooking Coone’s Landing Bridge on the …
The Newbern Methodist congregation selected the present site and completed this church in the fall of 1884. (Prior to this time, they held the …
In 1844, Episcopalians in Uniontown and Marengo County united to form Union Parish. The parish was admitted to the Diocese of Alabama on May 2, 1845. …
The Indian Springs Baptist Church is located in north Monroe County near the McWillams community. An “Indian Springs Baptist Church” historic marker …
This church is located in the community of Jefferson in Marengo County. The church was established as Mt. Pleasant Baptist in 1820 and is among the ol …
This is a Greek Revival, one-story church with a pedimented end-gable that has a recessed portico with columns set in antis and a square bell tower. I …
THERE IS GLORY IN THE GRAVES, reads the inscription on the Confederate Monument that stands in the center of Selma’s Live Oak Cemetery. Visitors who …
This historic church is located in Marengo County between Magnolia and Lamison. Construction began on this building in 1910 and it was completed in 19 …
The Marion Presbyterian Church was organized on July 30, 1832. The present building was constructed in the 1870’s using Norman-style architecture and …
Methodists had their beginnings in Marion in 1819. Prior to the construction of the present church building, the Methodist congregation used the Maso …
Shown are pictures of the monument that marks the grave of Mattie O. Blunt Keith (1858-1886). This is just one of many beautiful monuments that you wi …
The Mount Sterling Methodist Church was built circa 1859 and was the first local building constructed expressly as a church. The church never had a fu …
The New Hope Baptist Church and its adjacent cemetery are listed on both the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and on the Alabama Register o …
The Newbern Baptist Church was organized in 1848. The following year, the congregation built this two-story church. The upper floor has a large meetin …
This is the oldest church in Newbern and one of the oldest Presbyterian Churches in this part of Alabama. The Newbern Presbyterian Church was organize …
This church, which started as Liberty Baptist Church, was organized on April 4, 1851. The congregation’s first church building was made of logs and it …
Old Scotland in Monroe County was settled by families from Georgia and the Carolinas, many of whose families immigrated to this country from Scotland …
When traveling Highway 41 between Monroeville and Camden, you will pass a very picturesque scene at Franklin that includes several nicely restored bui …