Dancyville United Methodist Church and Cemetery
Dancyville United Methodist Church and Cemetery | |
35°24′19″N 89°17′43″W / 35.40528°N 89.29528°W / 35.40528; -89.29528 | |
Area | 3.9 acres (1.6 ha) |
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Built | 1850 |
Architectural style | Greek Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 91000224[1] |
Added to NRHP | March 13, 1991 |
Dancyville United Methodist Church is a historic church in the Dancyville community in Haywood County, Tennessee. The church and its cemetery were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[1] The church survives as the oldest United Methodist Church in West Tennessee.[2]
The church property was deeded to the Methodist Church on April 1, 1835. Two years later, in 1837, the congregation was organized and a log church building was built on the property.[3] The current building was completed in 1850, replacing the log church. It is a wood frame building in a Greek Revival design, built from trees growing on the church grounds; the lumber was hewn and sawed by hand.[3][4] In the early 1950's basement was built to house a modern kitchen, bathrooms, an assembly room, and Sunday school rooms. The adjoining cemetery dates to 1830.[2] It is one of only a few extant antebellum churches in rural west Tennessee.[3]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b History of Haywood County. Brownsville-Haywood County Historical Society. 1989.
- ^ a b c "The Dancyville United Methodist Church". Dancyville.net. Archived from the original on March 15, 2013. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
- ^ Manning, Russ (2002). Scenic Driving Tennessee. Globe Pequot. p. 322. ISBN 9780762711383.
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