1949 - Franklintown Methodist Church - American Beach, FL
N 30° 34.404 W 081° 27.173
17R E 456573 N 3382412
The old Franklintown Methodist Church, also known as the Franklintown Chapel, was built in 1949 and is located in American Beach, Florida, USA. It is located behind the new Franklintown United Methodist Church building.
Waymark Code: WMQCD6
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 02/04/2016
Views: 2
A historical marker in front of the new Franklintown United Methodist Church building provides the following information about Franklintown Chapel:
"The Franklintown community was a first populated by ex-slaves from the Samuel Harrison plantation. Franklintown Chapel’s congregation was organized in 1880 by Trinity M.E. Church, located in the City of Fernandina at the north end of Amelia Island. The Reverend J.G. Howard served as the chapel’s first pastor from 1880-1885. As the congregation grew, in 1888 ex-slave and Union soldier Gabriel Means and his wife, Edith Drummond Means, donated land for a building. In 1892, Means built the first Franklin Chapel, a one-room unpainted fame structure. In 1949, that building was demolished to make way for the construction of State Road AIA, and a new building was constructed. In 1972, following the purchase of the entire Franklintown tract by the Amelia Island company, the 1949 building along with the original bell from the 1892 chapel was moved the American Beach community. American Beach had been established as an African American ocean playground in 1935 by the Afro-American Life Insurance Company’s pension Bureau under its president Abraham Lincoln Lewis. Today, Franklintown chapel serves as the Gabriel Means Fellowship hall adjacent to the Franklintown United Methodist Church."
Year of construction: 1949
Full inscription: Franklintown Methodist Church
Rebuilt 1949
Trustees
P. Hopkins
Mary R. Drummons
H. Stuart
Bishop, J.W.E. Bowens
Rev. A.L. Pierce, Pastor
Constructed by H.R. Leanheart
Cross-listed waymark: Not listed
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