National Historic Landmark- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church is associated with the Birmingham Alabama civil rights movement in 1963 in which two specific events led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Between May 2-8, 1963, participants of the nonviolent ...

John Street Church

Heritage Trail

John Street Church is the oldest Methodist Society in continental America and is the mother church of American Methodism. The Society was organized in New York in 1766 by Philip Embury, and ardent Irish Methodist and former Wesleyan ...

John Street Methodist Church

Landmarks of New York

The oldest Methodist Society in America organized in 1766 by Philip Embury and Barbara Heck constructed here in 1768 Wesley Chapel, the first Methodist meeting house in America. The present church, the third on this site, ...

John Street Methodist Church

Landmarks of New York

The oldest Methodist Society in America organized in 1766 by Philip Embury and Barbara Heck constructed here in 1768 Wesley Chapel, the first Methodist meeting house in America. The present church, the third on this site, ...

Jefferson Street Methodist Church

This was the first Methodist congregration in Natchez formed in the early 1800s, and the 1st building was constructed in 1807. The 1st Sunday School south of Philadelphia, Pa., was organized here in 1829.

Marker is at the intersection of Jefferson ...

Church Street

C.F. McCollough

Mayor

City of Greenville

1937-1947

J. Kenneth Cass

Mayor

City of Greenville

1947-1961

C.R. McMillian

Chief Commissioner

S.C. Highway Department

1947-1961

S.N. Pearman

Chief Commissioner

S.C. Highway Department

1961-

Plans for this multimillion dollar project began in 1944, upon request to the South Carolina Highway Department, by the Mayor and City Council of 1944, ...

Mulberry Street Methodist Church

This church, organized in 1826, is on land deeded to it by the Georgia Legislature in the same year. In 1828, the first church building in Macon was erected on this site. The first appointed pastor was Thomas Darley, who ...

Freemason Street Baptist Church

In May 1848 former members of the Cumberland Street Baptist Church organized to become the Freemason Street Baptist Church. A new church building was begun that year and completed and dedicated in May 1850.

The Reverend Tiberius Gracchus Jones, a ...

Washington Street Methodist Church

A church was built here between 1803 and 1805; another church, erected 1832, was burned by Union troops in 1865 and reconstructed in 1866 of salvaged brick and clay mortar. Present church dedicated 1875. Bishop Wm. Capers (1790-1855), founder of ...

18 Church Street

Earliest known deed recorded in 1789

This classic Charleston single house was

once the home of Thomas Gadsden,

distinguished Charleston lawyer and

grandson of Revolutionary War hero

General Christopher Gadsden.

Marker is on Church Street, on the right when traveling north.

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