Church of the Redeemer

Church of the Redeemer is a Tennessee historical marker in Bedford County.

Bedford Co, TN 16 (US 41A), in Shelbyville, at corner of N. Jefferson & East Lane streets

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This was Lot 44 of the original town plan. A log church was built here in 1815. The Presbyterians used it, and built the present church in 1817. In 1856, a Catholic congregation bought the building, selling to the Northern Methodists in 1894. These sold the building at auction in 1934. The Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee bought it in 1935 and consecrated it in 1936.

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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library

Historical maps covering this location

1796 · Map of The Tennassee (sic) Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1797 · Tennassee Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1814 · Kentucky (Mathew Carey, 1814) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1815 · United States of America, southern part / drawn under the direction of Mr. Pinkerton by… (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library)
1829 · Tennessee (A. Finley, 1829) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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