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 Fourth Avenue Church of Christ - Williamson County Historical Society Posted by:  LSUMonica
N 35° 55.504 W 086° 52.248
16S E 511655 N 3975645
Fourth Avenue Church of Christ marker erected Williamson County Historical Society.
Waymark Code: WM88B
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 03/02/2006
Views: 71
In 1833, a congregation of seventeen Christian's was organized in Franklin following preaching by Tolbert Fanning, Absalom Adams, and Alexander Campbell. Joel Anderson and Andrew Craig were other early leaders in this church, one of the oldest in the American Restoration movement. After Campbell's second visit in 1851, a brick meeting house was erected here on Indigo Street on a lot given by Thomas Hardin Perkins. The first service was held September 5, 1852. That building, used as a hospital after the Battle of Franklin, stood until it was ruined by a cyclone in 1927. The second church, which featured stained-glass windows from a 1914 edition, stood here for fifty years. The present structure was built in 1978.
Williamson County Historical Society, 1996
The marker reads the same on both sides.
Marker Name: Fourth Avenue Church of Christ
Marker Location: Roadside
Type of Marker: Building
Marker Number: Fourth Avenue Church of Christ
Group(s) Responsible for placing Marker:
Williamson County Historical Society
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