Trinity A.M.E. Church
This church was founded soon after the Civil War
by 50 freedmen and woman who held their first
services in a stable donated to them by S.A. Rigby.
In 1869 the church trustees bought a half-acre lot
for a school, and in 1870 they bought a one-acre
lot for "the African Methodist Episcopal Church of
Manning" on what is now Rigby Street, named for
Rigby. The first church here, a frame building, was
completed in 1874.
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The congregation, first called simply "Our Church"
by its members, was renamed Trinty A.M.E. Church
when its first building was completed in 1874. That
building was replaced by a larger frame church,
which burned in 1895. The present church, also a
frame building, was built that year and covered in
brick veneer in 1914. The Central S.C. Conference
of the A.M.E. Church was organized here in 1921.
Marker is on West Rigby Street near North Mill Street, on the right when traveling west.
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