Mt. Pisgah C.M.E. Church

Mt. Pisgah C.M.E. Church is a Tennessee historical marker in Church Memphis Tennessee, Shelby County.

Shelby Co., 2490 Park Avenue,Church Memphis Tennessee

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Mt. Pisgah, founded in 1879 by ex-slaves, is one of the oldest churches and the only Christian Methodist Episcopal (C. M. E.) Church in the Orange Mound community. The Reverend J. C. Powell served as the church's first pastor. Erected in 1929, members of this Gothic Revival structure housed refugees during Arkansas' 1937 “Great Flood.” In 1950, Mt. Pisgah hosted the Tennessee NAACP Conference. In 2007, the Memphis Federal Building was renamed after Mt. Pisgah member Odell Horton, Memphis' first African American federal judge.

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1859 · Arkansas (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1878 · (Map 6 - Indian Territory, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1879 · Mississippi. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1886 · Arkansas. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Mt. Pisgah C.M.E. Church

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