Bethel A.M.E. Church - Vicksburg, MS
Posted by: kwashnak
N 32° 21.282 W 090° 52.721
15S E 699614 N 3581730
Marker at church. 805 Monroe Street, Vicksburg
Waymark Code: WMHAFX
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 06/15/2013
Views: 12
Bethel A.M.E. Church
Site of first African Methodist Episcopal Church (1864), and first Negro Masonic Lodge in Mississippi organized here (1875). Campbell College was organized here in 1890. Present church was built in 1912.
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1975
Date Installed:: 1975
Organization that placed the object:: Mississippi Department of Archives and History
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