Category Archives: Churches and Temples

Gospel Aid Christ Community Church and Cemetery-Norwood, Georgia

I don’t know much about the church, based on burials in the cemetery, I would guess this church was founded around 1900.

These appliqué headstones can be seen throughout the state of Georgia.
Rosie Mae Baker, 1905-1990

Bay Springs Methodist Church and Cemetery-Washington County, Georgia

Cynthia Colson, 1816-1908
Reverend J. E. Hines, 1859-1909
Minnie Lee Walters, 1880-1912

Shiloh Methodist Church and Cemetery-Inman, South Carolina

Spartanburg County

The Shiloh Methodist Church is the oldest extant church in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The congregation started after the Revolutionary War. This church building was constructed around 1825. Church services have not been held since 1915, but there is a yearly homecoming every May.

It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

St. James Presbyterian Church in Harlem, New York

Founded in 1895, St. James Presbyterian Church began with members from the former Shiloh Presbyterian Church, first gathering at the Odd Fellows Hall on West 32nd Street.

After several relocations, including a move due to the construction of Penn Station, the congregation followed the Great Migration northward, settling in Harlem in 1915. By 1927, they moved into their current home at 141st Street & St. Nicholas Avenue, a building originally designed for Lenox Presbyterian Church. The building was designed by Ludlow & Valentine and completed in 1905.