John Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church

The National Register

of Historic Places:

John Wesley

Methodist Episcopal

Church

Marker is on East Court Street near Falls Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

John Wesley Methodist Church

(Front)

This church, founded about 1865, is the first African-American church in Lamar and was long known as Lamar Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. It was organized by Rev. John Boston, a former slave who was its first minister, serving here ...