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Star Hill AME Church, also known as Star of the East Church, is a historic 
Today the church is home to the Star Hill Museum, which features exhibits about African American history in Kent County, slavery and the Underground Railroad.
Star Hill Museum
African Methodist Episcopal churches in Delaware Churches completed in 1866 19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States Churches in Kent County, Delaware Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware Museums in Kent County, Delaware History museums in Delaware African-American museums in Delaware 1866 establishments in Delaware National Register of Historic Places in Kent County, Delaware {{Delaware-NRHP-stub
African Methodist Episcopal
The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the AME Church or AME, is a predominantly African American Methodist denomination. It adheres to Wesleyan-Arminian theology and has a connexional polity. The African Methodist Episcopal ...
(AME) church building and cemetery located in Dover, Delaware
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near Camden
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, Kent County, Delaware
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. It was constructed about 1866, and is a one-story, three-bay by three-bay, gable roofed, frame building in a vernacular Gothic Revival
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-style. It features a small bell tower at the roof ridge. Interments in the adjacent cemetery are believed to begin with the founding of the church in the 1860s, but the earliest marked grave dates from the early 1890s.
The church is an important focal point of the community of Star Hill, an early community of African American settlement in Kent County.
Star Hill AME Church was founded in the 1860s and is a daughter church of nearby Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church. and '
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
Today the church is home to the Star Hill Museum, which features exhibits about African American history in Kent County, slavery and the Underground Railroad.
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Star Hill Museum
African Methodist Episcopal churches in Delaware Churches completed in 1866 19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States Churches in Kent County, Delaware Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware Museums in Kent County, Delaware History museums in Delaware African-American museums in Delaware 1866 establishments in Delaware National Register of Historic Places in Kent County, Delaware {{Delaware-NRHP-stub