About Beth Salem Presbyterian Church

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Beth Salem Presbyterian Church is a historic African-American church in Athens, Tennessee.

The congregation was organized in 1866 with support from white missionaries, making Beth Salem the first African American church in the three-county farming region of McMinn, Meigs, and Polk counties.

At first, the congregation held its services under a brush arbor. After a local white woman donated land for a building, a log church was built. It also housed a public school. After the log building was destroyed by fire around 1920, the current building was built using donated lumber and the volunteer labor of both black church members and their white neighbors.

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County Road 602, McMinn County, Tennessee, United States of America, 37303

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