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Mount Pisgah African Methodist Episcopal Church
Washington, Warren County

The AME congregation was organized in 1860, by which time slavery had disappeared in the state, and may have been long gone in Warren County, as there never were many slaves here to begin with. This is the only black church in the county.
     The building is a simple one, but with a board-and-batten exterior, which still exists on the main body of the building. The entry vestibule is newer than the rest of the church, which was erected on North Lincoln Street between 1879-1882. It sits right at the northern edge of town, which is where the black churches, as well as the early Catholic and Methodist churches usually had to build, as no "respectable" people would have sold them a building lot in the heart of town.

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