Thomas Chapel C.M.E. Church

Thomas Chapel C.M.E. Church
Streetside view
Location Moscow Avenue
Hickman, Kentucky
Coordinates 36°34′17″N 89°11′21″W / 36.57139°N 89.18917°W / 36.57139; -89.18917Coordinates: 36°34′17″N 89°11′21″W / 36.57139°N 89.18917°W / 36.57139; -89.18917
Area 0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built 1895
Built by Rev. Warren Thomas
NRHP reference # 79000988[1]
Added to NRHP January 9, 1979

Thomas Chapel C.M.E. Church is a historic church on Moscow Avenue in Hickman, Kentucky. It is part of the Christian Methodist Episcopal denomination formed in the South after the American Civil War.

On December 16, 1870 in Jackson, Tennessee, 41 freedmen who were former members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South organized what was then called the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. (The Methodist Church had split before the war into North and South denominations.) This denomination was composed primarily of African Americans who wanted to have their own churches free of white supervision. In 1954 they changed the name of the denomination to the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.

This church was built in 1895 and added to the National Register in 1979.[1]

It is a masonry building, built to replace the previous building which was destroyed in a fire. Its reverend, Warren Thomas, was a carpenter and mason.[2]

The church was deemed "important because of the role it played in the early history of education in the black community of Hickman, Kentucky, and the fact that it was the first black church founded in this small western town."[2]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 Daniel Kidd (September 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Thomas Chapel C.M.E. Church". National Park Service. Retrieved January 13, 2018. With three photos from 1978.


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