Thomas Chapel C.M.E. Church
National Register of Historic Places

Thomas Chapel C.M.E. Church

Hickman, Fulton County, Kentucky
Listed
January 9, 1979
Type
Building
Period
Civil War
Ref No.
79000988

About this property

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. 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. 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."

Location

Hickman, Fulton County, Kentucky
36.57159, -89.18913

Categories

EDUCATION
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Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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Nearby Historic Sites

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When was Thomas Chapel C.M.E. Church listed on the National Register?

Thomas Chapel C.M.E. Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 9, 1979.

What type of historic resource is Thomas Chapel C.M.E. Church?

Thomas Chapel C.M.E. Church is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Thomas Chapel C.M.E. Church is recorded as the civil_war era.

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