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Ford's Chapel United Methodist Church
Ford's Chapel United Methodist Church, or simply Ford's Chapel UMC, is a United Methodist church located in Harvest, Alabama, in the United States. It was founded in 1808 and is the first Methodist Church established in what is now the state of Alabama. History Three years after the close of the Revolutionary War, in 1784, the first Methodist Conference in America was organized under the direction of John Wesley of England who appointed Thomas Coke (bishop), Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury as Bishops. 1802–1808 By 1802, settlers had left the original thirteen states and scattered across the land to the Mississippi River and possibly beyond. Until the 1808–1812 Indian War, North Alabama was the home of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee and Creek Indians. The treaty ending the war in 1812 decreed that the Indians should be moved west of the Mississippi. Indian relics and General Andrew Jackson battlefields are located in this area, called in that period, "The Big Bend Count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ford's Chapel UMC
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