Located on the north end of Cumberland Island is an area where freedmen and women lived after the Civil War. This area, known as The Settlement, contains a few extant buildings.
The Roger Alberty House, built-in 1900, sits next to the First African Baptist Church. The Alberty family was one of the original families who made this area into a community.
I don’t know much about the church, based on burials in the cemetery, I would guess this church was founded around 1900.
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.
