Ebenezer Baptist Church - Baptist Hill - East Thach Avenue
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Markerman62
N 32° 36.250 W 085° 28.405
16S E 643247 N 3608434
Located at East Thach Avenue and Auburn Drive, Auburn
Waymark Code: WM164MN
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 05/04/2022
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Side 1
This simple frame structure was built by newly freed black men and women before 1870. The property on which the building stands was given to a member of the Ebenezer congregation in 1865, the year the War Between the States ended, by a white landowner, Lonnie Payne. The church is built of hand hewn logs, felled on the Frazer plantation, northeast of Auburn, and were hauled by mule to this site. Members of the congregation constructed the building. The Church and its early leaders figured prominently in Alabama's black Baptist history. The church congregation held its services here until 1969.
Side 2
Pastors serving church at this site:
Reverend Tom Glynn
Reverend Saunders
Reverend Ishman Pollard
Reverend O.D. Slaughter
Reverend I.T. Simpson
Reverend J.M. Alexander
Reverend C.J. Davis
Reverend G.R. Young, Jr.
Reverend H.E. Jones
Marker Name: Ebenezer Baptist Church - Baptist Hill - East Thach Avenue
Marker Type: Urban
Addtional Information::
Erected by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission
Date Dedicated / Placed: 1978
Marker Number: Not listed
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