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Thompson Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service

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The house a congregation helped build for its pastor
Page or archive reference: The Freedom Church, opening paragraph; Designation and Current Status, historical paragraphs beginning The African Methodist Episcopal congregation and On August 24: 1838 congregation, homes/former Washington Street schoolhouse, 1846 reincorporation and 1891 building.
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The house a congregation helped build for its pastor
Page or archive reference: Designation and Current Status, final two historical paragraphs: Reverend E.U.A. Brooks fundraising in 1908, June 1910 parsonage groundbreaking, September 1910 completion and much labor supplied by congregation members to lower costs.
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