Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist Church
Posted by: Markerman62
N 32° 20.177 W 090° 19.174
15S E 752292 N 3580869
Located at 505 E College St, Clinton
Waymark Code: WM117YY
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 09/02/2019
Views: 1
Walter Hillman and Consider Parish led a congregation of former slaves in forming Pleasant Green Baptist Church in 1870. The church, under Reverend Dunbar, met in the Mississippi College chapel before relocating to a lot east of the chapel. The church later moved to East College Street. African American families buried their dead in a separate plot owned by the Clinton Cemetery Association until 1928 when they gained ownership of black-only Cedar Grove Cemetery.
Date Installed:: 2017
Organization that placed the object:: Mississippi Department of Archives and History
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