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Location
Walhalla
City
Walhalla
County
Oconee
Date of Founding
1860
Date of Photograph
1-1-2014
Description
Trinity was founded in the 1860s as the only worship center for African Americans in the Walhalla area. Tradition has it beginning as a brush arbor at a location known as Twin Pines. Rev. James Rosemond is credited with Trinity’s founding. It was recognized as an extension ministry of the Mount Vernon Epworth League of the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. For many years, Trinity housed the only school for African Americans in the Walhalla School District. It was the home church of Rev. Granville Hicks, a leading member of the South Carolina Annual Conference for many years and the first appointment of the late Bishop Joseph B. Bethea. Placed on the list of UMC Historic Sites in 2004. (Trinity was recently sold to a Hispanic church and is no longer an active UMC congregation.) Source: UMC
Source
United Methodist Historic Site
Rights
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