Rev. Pharaoh H. Benson 1841-1905

Rev. Pharaoh H. Benson 1841-1905 is a Tennessee historical marker in Nashville., Davidson County.

Corner of 25th Avenue, North and Clifton Road, Nashville.

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In 1869, African American pioneers in this area saw the need to build a church in the city's Northwest corridor. In 1871,the Rev. Nelson Merry, one of Nashville's first ordained African American ministers and pastor of the First Colored Baptist Church, responded by ordaining the Rev. Pharaoh Benson, a former slave, and sending him to establish Mt. Nebo Colored Baptist Church on this site. The old Ashcraft School, a one-room frame structure on Mt. Nebo Hill, served as the church's building.

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1844 · Kentucky (H. S. Tanner, 1844) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Kentucky And Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Battlefields In Front Of Nashville. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Battle-field, Nashville, Tenn. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Rev. Pharaoh H. Benson 1841-1905

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