21-17 Mt. Zion Methodist Church
N 34° 10.759 W 079° 38.617
17S E 624999 N 3782870
Rural African American Methodist Church history.
Waymark Code: WM6XCD
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 08/01/2009
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MT. ZION METHODIST CHURCH
This church, founded in 1868 with Rev. James Wesley Johnson as its first minister, held its early services in a brush arbor. In 1870 trustees purchased this 1 3/4 acre tract to build a "Negro Schoolhouse" sponsored by the church, the first in the Mars Bluff community. This sanctuary, originally a frame building, was built in 1875 on a tract purchased from the school. The sanctuary was extensively remodeled and covered in brick veneer in 1970. The cemetery nearby, established in 1876, includes the graves of such early church leaders as Anthony H. Howard (1840-1908), a former slave who served in the S.C. House of Representatives during Reconstruction. Howard was also one of several black farmers who grew rice here after the Civil War.
ERECTED BY THE CONGREGATION, 2004
Marker Name: Mt. Zion Methodist Church
Marker Location: Roadside
Type of Marker: Building
Marker number: 21-17
County: Florence
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