<p>Gibson Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church on S. Bayou Black Drive in Gibson, Louisiana. It was built in 1849 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>On May 17, 1849 land was donated in Tigerville, Louisiana (now formally known as Gibson) by Cornelius C. Wallis and John Wallis. They donated this land to the Methodists for the construction of a cemetery and a Church. The church took approximately six months to build and was completely built by the end of the year. This church turned out to be the simplest and smallest church of the surrounding areas of Tigerville, Thibodaux, and Houma. At the time, it was known as the Sycamore Church because of the sycamore trees that grew in the yard. The common style during this time and the style of this church is a variation of the Greek Revival Style. Tobias Gibson, William Thompson, and John McIntyre were a few of the original members of the church.</p><br>
<p>Tobias Gibson and his wife moved from Kentucky to Louisiana in the 1850s. Tobias owned Plantations named Holly Wood, Live Oak, and Oak Forest near Tigerville, Louisiana. They had eight children, but one child in particular was more eminent. His name is Randall Lee Gibson and he served in the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. Randall conducted all his business in French including owning a Plantation in Lafourche Parish and practicing law in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Also, it was he who requested Tigerville, Louisiana be changed to Gibson, Louisiana in 1859.</p><br>
<h2>Greek revival architecture</h2><br>
<p>The South was successful in adapting existing styles rather than developing their own distinctive style. During the colonial times, it was the Georgian style that really took hold until the Greek Revival Style came into favor in the 1830s. Yet, often there are houses who show traces of the Georgian influences. However, the earliest example of Greek Revival Styling was built in Philadelphia in 1798 which was the Latrobe&#39;s Bank of Pennsylvania. The Greek Styling did not reach the Deep South till the very last.</p><br>
<p>However, once it reached the United States, fine stone was no longer used. Instead deTocqueville&#39;s materials, “painted wood” and “white washed bricks” were used. Greek Revival Architecture was associated with the “white columned look” in Greece, but that did was not common in Louisiana. In certain southern states, including Louisiana, the Greek Revival looked different from popular Greek temples found elsewhere in the United States. However, the most common are buildings in “the peripteral mode,” the galleried cottage and the double gallery house.</p><br>
<p>St. Matthew&#39;s Episcopal Church is a parish of the Episcopal Church in Houma, Louisiana, in the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana. It is noted for its historic church at 243 Barrow Street, which was built in 1892 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The parish was chartered in 1855. In 1857, Robert Ruffin Barrow donated five lots on Barrow Street, where the first church was built in 1857. In 1888, fire destroyed the rectory and the church was deemed unsafe, leading to the construction of the current buildings 1890–92.</p><br>
<p>On November 11, 2010, the church was destroyed in a fire and it was delisted from the National Register of Historic Places in March 31, 2015.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary Congregational Church in Abbeville, Louisiana is the oldest incorporated, predominantly African-American church in Vermilion Parish. Its historic Gothic Revival style church at 213 S. Louisiana Avenue, constructed in 1905 to replace a previous building, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>American Missionary Association records show the congregation dates to at least 1877.</p><br>
<p>The structure is a three-bay, gable-fronted church with a prominent corner tower. The tower is three-stage and square.</p><br>
<p>Rev. Kevin M. A. Williams, Sr. is the pastor.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary Magdalen Church is a historic Roman Catholic church at in Abbeville, Louisiana. In 1988 the church, along with the associated rectory and cemetery, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was founded c. 1844, the present church was built in 1911; the American Foursquare-style rectory was built in 1921. The property added to the National Register in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The church is a red brick Gothic-style cruciform basilica with buff-colored brick accents. It has Romanesque Revival details. It has somewhat projecting buttresses reinforcing its outer walls.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. Mary Magdalen Parish was established in 1842 by Pere Antoine Desire Megret. The first church, the remodeled home of Joseph LeBlanc, was built and dedicated in the spring of 1844. From the beginning it was placed under the invocation of Saint Mary Magdalen, a favorite saint among the descendants of the Acadian exiles all through South Louisiana. The name was always retained, except for a short time during Father Laforests administration, when after the 1907 fire, the church was temporarily called Saint Anns, at least in the reports.</p><br>
<p>In September 1847, Reverend Nicholas Francais was given charge of Saint Mary Magdalen Church, but Pere Megret continued to look after the Catholics of Abbeville and vicinity. Father Francais served there until after September 1850.</p><br>
<p>In 1851, Archbishop Blanc made Vermilion Parish an independent parochial jurisdiction, with Saint Mary Magdalen&#39;s Church as the parish church, and Reverend Hubert Thirion, a young French priest, the first resident pastor. He was joined by Reverend Francis Mittlebronn, a newly ordained priest, who became the first parish assistant. Father Thirion and Father Mittlebronn remained until sometime after October 12, 1852.</p><br>
<p>The church was without a pastor for a time, then in February 1853, Reverend J. Regale was sent to take charge of the parish. Father Regale left Abbeville sometime in 1853, and in either November or December that year Abbeville was given its new pastor, Reverend Stephen (Etienne) Joseph Foltier, a French priest.</p><br>
<p>In February 1854, a fire at the rectory destroyed the church records. The current parish records begin on February 20, 1854. There was an attempt to reconstruct the baptism records by having the parishioners come in to report the baptism of their children. The marriage records were completely lost.</p><br>
<p>Father Foltier left in September 1856 and Reverend Jean Arthur Poyet was his successor. Father Poyet was an energetic priest, and he visited every corner of the parish from Delcambre out to Gueydan and Cossinade, and down to the swamps on the Gulf shore. With genuine regret, the parishioners of Saint Mary Magdalen bade farewell to Father Poyet in January 1866.</p><br>
<p>The new pastor was Reverend Theodore Lamy, another energetic French priest, a man of great spiritual stature. In December 1868, Father Lamy welcomed a young French priest named Alexandre Mehault, who came to serve as assistant, and eventually became one of the outstanding pastors of Saint Mary Magdalen Church.</p><br>
<p>Father Mehault became pastor in May 1870. During his pastorate, a new rectory was built, a new bell was put in the church, and many improvements were made to the church. He made periodic visits to his home in France and, while there, obtained vestments, ornaments, sacred vessels, statues and other religious ornaments for Saint Mary Magdalen&#39;s church. The parish church became a place of beauty, and ceremonies of the church were conducted with brilliance and solemnity in accord with their high purpose of glorifying Almighty God. New stained-glass windows and a beautiful set of hand-painted Stations of the Cross on canvas were obtained. Many of these articles were donated by people of Vermilion Parish. Father Mehault also brought Catholic education to the parish, persuading the Sisters of Mount Carmel at New Orleans to staff a school in Abbeville.</p><br>
<p>It soon became apparent that the frame structure on the site of Joseph LeBlanc&#39;s home was far too small. Everyone agreed that a new and larger church was needed. On May 28, 1884, the new Saint Mary Magdalen Church was solemnly blessed.</p><br>
<p>In May 1896, St. Mary Magdalen&#39;s Parish was legally incorporated as "The Congregation of St. Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church" and all of the parochial property was formally transferred by the archdiocese to the new parish corporation.</p><br>
<p>Father Mehault left Abbeville in July 1899. He was succeeded by Reverend Fabian Laforest, a native of Canada. Father Laforest was a priest of many attainments, artistic, deeply pious, scholarly and a capable administrator. In 1904, Father Laforest installed a new organ in the church and enlarged the rectory. In 1905 he arranged for a new cemetery, and installed new pews in the church.</p><br>
<p>On March 22, 1907, at 7 p.m. the church of Saint Mary Magdalen, Abbeville, was completely destroyed by fire, as was the presbytery attached to the church. The fire destroyed the baptism register covering 1901–1904. During that period, there were 1541 baptisms. Parishioners were asked to come to the church to record the baptisms that occurred during that time. Of the 1541 baptism records lost, 274 were recovered. Father Laforest erected a temporary frame church, which was blessed under the invocation of St. Ann&#39;s. The new Saint Mary Magdalen Church was completed and put into use in 1911.</p><br>
<p>Father Laforest died on August 26, 1915, and was buried in the new cemetery he had developed. Reverend Julien Ravier Bollard was named the new pastor on July 1, 1915. Father Bollard was a man of great piety, self-sacrifice, zeal, charity and whole-hearted devotion to the flock entrusted to his care. Father Bollard served in Abbeville for 15 years. It was during this time that the Diocese of Lafayette was formed, and Saint Mary Magdalen Parish was part of the new diocese.</p><br>
<p>On June 20, 1930, His Excellency, Bishop Jeanmard appointed Reverend Edmund Daull, a native of Strasbourg, France, as pastor. Father Daull made many improvements to the church. During Father Daull&#39;s pastorate, youth work began in earnest due mainly to the zeal and energy of a young assistant who came in 1938 — Reverend Joseph Verbis Lafleur. Father Lafleur lost his life while a prisoner during World War II. He lost his life while aboard a sinking prisoner of war ship. He was last seen persuading men to leave the hold of the ship, blessing them and helping them up the ladder to possible safety. Father Daull died suddenly on December 5, 1949, and was buried at the foot of the cross in the old cemetery.</p><br>
<p>Right Reverend Monsignor Paul Fusilier became the new pastor on January 16, 1950. During his pastorate, Monsignor Fusilier was instrumental in building the new Catholic school building for Mount Carmel in 1953. He made many necessary repairs and improvements to the parish church and rectory, including installing the new cross atop the spire himself. In 1951, he erected the new Chapel of Saint Therese of Lisieux on the east side of town, and established a convent for the French Dominican Sisters. Monsignor Fusilier left Abbeville in 1959.</p><br>
<p>Most Reverend Bishop Robert E. Tracy became the new pastor of Saint Mary Magdalen Parish. Bishop Tracy remained in Abbeville only six months, but accomplished many notable things. Among them: restoring the existing rectory, construction of a six-room catechetical center, tuck pointing and water proofing the exterior of the church, installation of an air conditioning unit at the convent of the Sisters of Mount Carmel, and the development of a successful adult religious education program.</p><br>
<p>In January 1960, Monsignor Ignatius A. Martin assumed the pastorate and served in Abbeville until October 1973. Monsignor Martin introduced the Legion of Mary, the Charismatic Renewal and the Cursillo to the parish. He was also instrumental in the construction of a music room and an additional classroom at Mount Carmel. Other improvements included the construction of a mausoleum, garden crypt, and Saint Paul Cemetery, a new high school (Vermilion Catholic High), a football stadium, expanded office facilities at the rectory, two parish community retreats, more renovation work on the church which included enlargement of the sacristy. During his pastorate, both extraordinary ministers of the Word and extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion were appointed to serve the Parish community.</p><br>
<p>Monsignor Richard von Phul Mouton, a native of Lafayette, was welcomed as pastor in November 1973. Monsignor Mouton also made enhancements to the beauty of the church. He sought to expand and improve the ministry to the elderly and homebound, being responsible for the appointment of some seventeen extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion. One of his major accomplishments was a significant reduction of the parish debt. In December 1975, the cellar of the church sacristy was renovated and turned into a weekday Mass chapel. The chapel was named Holy Parents Chapel. Monsignor Mouton served on the Abbeville Bicentennial Committee, which was instrumental in erecting the stature of Pere Antoine Desire Megret in Magdalen Square. Monsignor also commissioned the painting of a mural in the east vestibule of the Holy Parents Chapel to commemorate Saint Mary Magdalen&#39;s anniversary. On August 25, 1981, the sacristy and chapel were badly damaged by fire. Repairs and renovations took place in 1981–82. In January 1984, the community center was donated to Mt. Carmel to be used as classrooms and to make room for the new ministries building. The ministries building, which houses the parish offices, a large meeting room, two smaller meeting rooms and a bookstore, was completed in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The First United Methodist Church is a church in Leesville, Louisiana. Located at 202 N. Fifth Street, the building was built in 1920 in a Bungalow style/Craftsman style, Mission style/Spanish Revival style and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The building is a T-shaped church which was built in 1920 and expanded in the 1950s. It is a two-story building, with the worship space upstairs and a high brick basement story holding offices and meeting rooms. The front facade of the building has "a pronounced Spanish mission style gable pierced by a curvaceous vent in the Baroque manner."</p><br>
<p>Holly Grove Methodist Church is a historic church in Vernon Parish, Louisiana which was built in 1894 and enlarged in 1915. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The church was founded in the 1830s and was the beginning of Methodism in the extreme western part of Louisiana. Its building was deemed significant as "the only remaining example in Vernon Parish of the type of simple frame churches which characterized much of rural Louisiana at the turn of the century. It is also the parish&#39;s oldest extant church structure. Holly Grove, therefore, is a landmark in the sparse architectural history of this comparatively recently settled parish."</p><br>
<p>The church is isolated in a forested area. In 1980 the church was accessible only by a 1.3 mi dirt road.</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic church on Old Laurel Hill Road in Laurel Hill, Louisiana. It is maintained as a chapel of Grace Church of West Feliciana Parish.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1873 and added to the National Register in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1872, the Reverend J.P. Lytton, of Woodville, Mississippi held Episcopalian services in Laurel Hill. The demand for services was large enough that Bishop Wilmer held services on March 17, 1873, and commissioned J. Burruss McGehee to be a lay reader to hold further services. These were held at first in the local Methodist chapel and then at the home of Colonel V.D. Walsh.</p><br>
<p>The parish was organized as St. John&#39;s Church on September 28, 1873, with the Reverend A.G. Bakewell as rector; McGehee as senior warden and Walsh as junior warden.</p><br>
<p>William Goddard built the church with the first service was held on November 23, 1873. Total cost of the construction including furniture was $2,200. Colonel Walsh contributed $1,000 and the church became a memorial to his only daughter, Susie Jessie Walsh. The church was consecrated on Whitsunday, May 14, 1874. Early rectors included J. Wilmer Turner, Frank E. Evans, and E.W. Hunter,</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic church building located in Weyanoke, Louisiana.</p><br>
<p>St. Marys Episcopal Church was built in 1857 to serve approximately 20 plantation families in the remote Tunica area north of St. Francisville, Louisiana. The churchs design is attributed to Frank Wills, a New York architect who was a prominent proponent of the Gothic Revival style in the 19th century. Wills believed that the English country church was the ideal model for American Episcopal congregations, a belief reflected in St. Mary&#39;s design. Other churches by Wills in the region include Christ Church in Napoleonville, Louisiana and the Chapel of the Cross near Madison, Mississippi.</p><br>
<p>In 1858, the church was consecrated by Bishop (later Confederate General) Leonidas Polk, the "Fighting Bishop" of Civil War fame. The church was built on the Old East Tunica Road on 5 acres of land donated by Sarah Mulford. The land&#39;s title description is written "per aversionem," making the exact boundaries difficult to identify.</p><br>
<p>In 1928, the construction of State Highway 66 about half a mile west of the church led to the abandonment of the old road, leaving the church without vehicular access except via private farm roads. The church was deconsecrated in 1947 and now stands empty, gradually being overtaken by the surrounding forest, which has completely overgrown the graveyard north of the church and the old roadway.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Carlston Annis Shell Mound  is a prominent archaeological site in the western part of the USA state of Kentucky. Located along the Green River in Butler County, this shell midden has been declared a historic site because of its archaeological value.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Carlson Annis Shell Mound sits on the eastern side of the Green River, somewhat more than 300 ft east of the shoreline. Because it lies in the river&#39;s floodplain, the mound is the highest point in the area; its top is typically dry even though the surrounding terrain be flooded. It occupies a dark loamy soil, although the edges of the mound are covered by a substantially lighter loam with mixtures of sand and clay. Since the mound was formed, the river has changed its course; it appears to have flowed directly by the base of the mound as it was being created. When the area was first settled in the early nineteenth century, the floodplain was recognized as valuable farmland, and because the mound is an island during floods, settlers saw it as a place of refuge; for most of the time since whites arrived, farmsteads have occupied its summit.</p><br>
<p>Measuring approximately 350 ft from north to south and 300 ft east to west, the mound rises approximately 6 ft above the surrounding terrain. The shells extend down from the surface by 7.5 ft from the center; the difference between the heights is the result of floods since the midden was created, which have deposited multiple layers of earth around the base.</p><br>
<h2>Excavation</h2><br>
<p>In 1939, archaeologists from the University of Kentucky began to excavate the Annis Mound under the leadership of W.D. Funkhouser and W.S. Webb. Initial surveys found minimal damage to the site: a well had been dug into the center, and the surface was slightly affected by the foundations of buildings on the top, and neighbors from miles around were frequently digging from the edge to procure shells for use as chicken feed. Excavations began with the digging of a trench through the southern portion of the mound, after which the mound was divided into blocks of 30 x so that the locations of artifacts could more accurately be plotted on diagrams. The initial excavation produced evidence of 129 different features:</p><br>
<p>Hearths — 71</p><br>
<p>Fire basins — 21</p><br>
<p>Burned clay patches — 4</p><br>
<p>Pits — 12</p><br>
<p>Caches of stone tools — 10</p><br>
<p>Caches of lithic flakes — 8</p><br>
<p>Caches of other objects — 3</p><br>
<p>This concentration of features was comparable to what had previously been found at other Archaic period shell middens in the region, demonstrating the similarity of the builders to other regional peoples: they lived in the vicinity, ate substantial numbers of shellfish, used the site as a trash heap for the shells, and buried their dead in the midden. Overall life expectancy at birth was somewhat more than twenty years; 29.7% of the skeletons were of children under five years of age, of which nearly three-quarters were infants, although examination of these skeletons produced no evidence of violence.</p><br>
<p>Beside bodies and objects associated with them, the excavation found a total of 19,733 artifacts, which were made from the following materials:</p><br>
<p>Flint — 4,228</p><br>
<p>Ground stone — 977</p><br>
<p>Copper — 2</p><br>
<p>Bone — 3,523</p><br>
<p>Antler — 1,324</p><br>
<p>Shell — 9,679</p><br>
<p>Additionally, the top of the mound produced 65 sherds of prehistoric pottery. As the Archaic peoples who inhabited the site have shown no evidence of producing their own pottery, these sherds are believed to have been the work of later peoples. Strengthening this proposal was the presence of Euro-American pottery in addition to the 65 sherds — Euro-Americans are known to have used the site because of its high location above floodwaters, and it is believed that later prehistoric peoples likewise camped at the site and would have left behind occasional broken pieces of pottery. Of the 4,000+ flint pieces found at the site, nearly half (1,997) were projectile points of various sorts, with corner-notched and long-shallow-notched shapes being the most common. Other types of flint stone tools included approximately 500 knives, 23 lithic cores, more than 500 drills, and approximately 1,000 scrapers. Artifacts of ground stone included almost fifty axes, seventy atlatl weights, more than one hundred mauls, more than one hundred sandstone discs, more than two hundred hammerstones, and nearly three hundred pestles. The two copper pieces were one bead and one awl, while the bone artifacts comprised over 1,000 awls, 900 fishhooks, occasional projectile points and flakers, and even occasional human bones that had been converted into tools. Most of the antler pieces were projectile points or pieces of unknown purpose, while nearly all of the shells were discs that were being used as beads. Aside from the numerous bits of pottery produced by whites, most of the potsherds found at Annis were grit- or shell-tempered pieces.</p><br>
<p>Although Carlston Annis and many other Green River shell middens were test excavated in the 1920s, much more extensive work was performed in the 1930s. Between 1937 and 1941, extensive information was revealed by excavations conducted by Works Progress Administration workers between 1937 and 1941.</p><br>
<h2>Conclusions</h2><br>
<p>Radiocarbon dating has suggested that some artifacts at Carlston Annis date back to 5424 BC, although most artifacts dated between 3200 and 1400 BC. Most of its projectile points clearly dated from the Archaic period, although one Adena and occasional Mississippian points were found; they seemingly were left by later peoples, just like the pottery pieces. Two projectile points that were found underneath the mound were fluted points from the Paleoindian period; they are believed to have been sitting on the riverside before the shell mound was started. Like several other shell mound sites in Kentucky, Carlston Annis produced pieces of three stone pipes and of a single stone cup; these objects may have been religious artifacts used by shamans in attempts to heal diseases. Kentucky&#39;s larger riverine Archaic sites vary widely in the amount of shell refuse that they have yielded; the much larger amount of shell refuse at sites such as Carlston-Annis and Indian Knoll is seemingly due to the presence of nearby bivalve beds. The numbers and types of non-human bones at the mound were typical of Archaic shell middens in the region, as was the number of antler pieces, although tools made of human bone were unusually numerous. At least three different processes were used to produce fishhooks from bones: some had been made from deer toes; some from bird bones of all sizes, a technique common at Kentucky shell middens; and a few by drilling large bones. Carlston Annis was the first Kentucky shell midden at which fishhooks made by this technique were found, although evidence of this technique is plentiful at the later Fort Ancient-period Madisonville site near Cincinnati. Numerous animal bones appear to have been used as ceremonial "medicine bags," which in later centuries were often made by skinning an animal without removing some of the bones.</p><br>
<p>The diets of Archaic peoples at many Green River sites has been determined largely from incomplete excavation data at better-known sites, such as Carlston Annis. It appears that the inhabitants floral diets rested almost completely on nuts, with hickory nuts dominating; both Carlston-Annis and the Bowles Site in Ohio County produced evidence suggesting that 80% of identifiable floral remains were hickory nuts, and 85% of the remnant was acorns. Some evidence exists at these sites for plants such as squash, little barley, and wild rice. Analysis of the burials at Carlston-Annis and other Green River sites demonstrates that the inhabitants demographics were similar to those of comparable sites elsewhere and to those of modern hunter-gatherer societies. Besides methods of producing fishhooks, Archaic technology can be seen from Carlston Annis in the atlatl components. No direct evidence of specific techniques was apparent from this excavation, but substantial circumstantial evidence was present. Because very few burials were accompanied by stone atlatls, it is believed that many individuals were also buried with wooden atlatls (comparable to modern Eskimo technology) that have not survived to the present. Comparison with Indian Knoll suggests that early inhabitants at Annis used all-wooden atlatls more commonly than the Indian Knoll people.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In April 1986, the Carlston Annis Shell Mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its archaeological importance. It was one of twenty-four shell middens along the Green River known together as the "Green River Shell Middens of Kentucky" that were listed on the National Register together. Eight years later, some of the Green River middens were named a historic district, the Green River Shell Middens Archeological District, and designated a National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>St. Thomas Episcopal Parish Historic District is a national historic district located at Croom, Prince Georges County, Maryland. The district encompasses four contributing buildings and three contributing sites associated with St. Thomas Church. The other contributing buildings are the Gothic Revival style St. Thomas Church Rectory , Tenant/Sextons House , and tobacco barn . The contributing sites are the St. Thomas Episcopal Church Cemetery, St. Simons Mission Chapel Site, and St. Simons Cemetery. The African-American communicants of St. Thomas Church formed St. Simons Mission Chapel in the late-19th century and it operated on the property associated with the Croome Industrial and Agricultural School , which operated from about 1902 to 1952.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Thompson Farm, also known as the Pierson Farm, is a historic home and farm located in London Britain Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It has five contributing buildings. They are a brick farmhouse, a stone and frame bank barn , frame outhouse, chicken house, and corn crib. The farmhouse was built in 1833, and expanded in 1857.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Lunn&#39;s Tavern, also known as The Wilkins Property, is an historic inn and tavern which is located in London Britain Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>This historic building has three sections. The original section was built circa 1760, and is a two-story, stone structure with a gambrel roof.</p><br>
<p>Part of the original section was altered when the brick addition was made in 1830. The modifications included adding stucco to the stone exterior walls and modifying the roof to the gable style. The 1830 brick addition has a wooden porch structure. It was the site of the writing of a famous letter from Thomas McKean to George Read on September 26, 1777, detailing the situation in Delaware and his actions upon assuming the presidency of the State of Delaware.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Gideon Wickersham Farmstead, also known as "Hame&#39;s Best," is an historic home which is located near Kennett Square, East Marlborough Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The farmhouse was built in 1818, and is a square stone dwelling in a vernacular Georgian style. The home measures 30 by and is constructed of schist and serpentine stone.</p><br>
<p>To the east of the stone core is a nineteenth-century clapboard addition. The house has a two-story, frame addition with a flat roof. Also located on the property is a contributing barn.</p><br>
<p>This complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Gregg House is an historic home that is located in Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The original section was built circa 1737. Additions were then made in roughly 1820, 1860 and 1986. The original section is a -story, three-bay, brick, Colonial farmhouse with a gable roof, measures twenty feet by thirty feet, and sits on a stone foundation. The section which includes the 1820 and 1860 additions was created using rubble fieldstone.</p><br>
<p>This historic structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Gibson&#39;s Covered Bridge, also known as Harmony Hill Bridge, is an historic, wooden, covered bridge which is located in East Bradford Township and West Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>A 78 ft Burr truss bridge, which was erected in 1872, this historic structure features stepped portals and horizontal clapboard siding, and crosses the East Branch Brandywine Creek.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was damaged and closed by flooding caused by Hurricane Ida on September 1, 2021.</p><br>
<p>The Linton Stephens Covered Bridge, also known as the Linton Stevens Covered Bridge, is an historic, American, wooden covered bridge that is located in Elk Township and New London Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>A 102 ft, Burr truss bridge that was built in 1886,is historic structure crosses Big Elk Creek.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The bridge was damaged and closed by flooding caused by Hurricane Ida on September 1, 2021.</p><br>
<p>The Rudolph and Arthur Covered Bridge was an historic, American wooden covered bridge that was located in Elk Township and New London Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, and was delisted in 2022.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>An 80 ft Burr truss bridge that was erected in 1880, it had vertical planking and eave-level window openings, and crossed Big Elk Creek.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, but was delisted in 2022.</p><br>
<p>The Rudolph and Arthur Covered Bridge was destroyed by remnants of Hurricane Ida on September 1, 2021. Pieces of the bridge washed ashore and dammed at the Chesterville Road/Route 841 bridge over Big Elk Creek.</p><br>
<p>Chandler Mill Bridge, also known as Chester County Bridge No. 236, is a historic steel bridge located in Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It spans the West Branch of Red Clay Creek. It is a single span, 47 ft, built up steel plate girder bridge. The bridge was constructed in 1910, and features stone abutments and wingwalls.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The bridge has been closed since May 6, 2011, due to its deteriorating condition.</p><br>
<p>The South Brook Farm, also known as the Charles A. Higgins Estate and the New Bolton Center for Veterinary Medicine, is an historic American estate located in East Marlborough Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The original section of the house was built in 1717; it was then expanded during the nineteenth century. In 1940, it was modernized and enlarged by the architect R. Brognard Okie, reflecting the Colonial Revival style. Also located on the property are a former stable or carriage house that was transformed into a cottage and photographic studio, an English bank barn, an early twentieth-century terracotta silo, and a one-story garage (1940).</p><br>
<p>This historic house was originally built as the retirement residence of Caleb Pusey (c. 1650–1727), an associate of William Penn and a Quaker leader. The farm remained in the Pusey family until acquired by the industrialist Charles A. Higgins (1882-c. 1956) between 1939 and 1940. He hired the architect R. Brognard Okie to transform the property into a gentlemans estate. Since 1958, the house has been the centerpiece of the University of Pennsylvanias veterinary and animal research complex, known as the New Bolton Center.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Taylor House, also known as the Meadowview Farm and Taylor–Parke House, is an historic, American home that is located in East Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, it is a contributing building to the Taylor–Cope Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1768, this historic structure has three sections. The main section is stories and constructed of fieldstone. Four bays wide and has a gable roof, it has a -story stone kitchen wing and an attached stone shed.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is also a contributing building to the Taylor–Cope Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Strodes Mill, also known as Etters Mill, is an historic, American grist mill that is located in East Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Located in the Strode&#39;s Mill Historic District, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>History and architectural features</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1721, this historic building is a three-and-one-half-story, banked, fieldstone structure. It measures approximately thirty feet by fifty-eight feet and houses a private residence.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It is located in the Strode&#39;s Mill Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The A.M. Bohnert Rice Plantation Pump, located on Route 165 and Post Bayou Lane, near Gillett, Arkansas, in Arkansas County, is a rare surviving example of an early 20th-century pump engine built by the engine manufacturer Fairbanks, Morse & Company. The pumping engine played an important role in productive rice farming in the area, supplying water to flood the fields.</p><br>
<p>The National Register of Historic Places included the pump in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Col. John Hannum House is a historic house located in East Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The original section was built about 1760, and has three additions. The original section is stories and constructed of fieldstone. It is five bays wide and has a gable roof. It has a two-story rectangular wing with a gable roof. Attached to the wing is a banked addition and one-story garage. It was the home of politician, businessman and colonial militiaman John Hannum III .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Riceland is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is located on the southwest corner of 3rd Street and South Main Street in downtown Stuttgart, Arkansas.</p><br>
<p>Construction began in 1919, with the grand opening in 1923. The hotel closed in 1970. The luxurious five-story hotel was designed by George R. Mann complete with rooftop garden. It is the largest commercial building in Stuttgart.</p><br>
<p>Duckhunters would flock to the hotel in winter for the annual shoot. Notable guests of the hotel included Ernest Hemingway and Clark Gable.</p><br>
<p>The Standard Ice Company Building is a historic commercial building at 517 South Main Street in downtown Stuttgart, Arkansas. Constructed in 1926, the building is in the Spanish Revival style, with a tile roof and glazed brick façade. The company manufactured blocks of ice for commercial and residential use, and remained in business until 1978. As household refrigerators became widespread, the facility was used to freeze and pack strawberries, as well as process and freeze ducks killed by local hunters.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Arkansas City Commercial District encompasses the three oldest surviving commercial buildings in Arkansas City, Arkansas. They are located along Sprague  Avenue, between Kate Adams  Street and De Soto Avenue, and are a reminder of a once-thriving commercial district in the city. The Cotham Drug Store, a two-story brick building from c. 1900, stands near the corner of Sprague and De Soto, facing south. The Red Star Grocery, built 1900, stands to its right; it is also a two-story brick building, but its facade has been altered, replacing a recessed doorway with a flush one. Stylistically the two buildings are similar, with brick corbelling and a course of dentil molding, with a parapet above. The third building is the Ramus Brothers Market, which stands on Sprague Street, and was built in 1910 out of poured concrete.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Holly Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery, located on the south side of Crooked Bayou Drive, 3 mi southeast of McGehee, Arkansas. The cemetery is the only surviving remnant of the community of Trippe Junction, established in 1857 by the families of William Fletcher Trippe and his brother-in-law Benjamin McGehee. A railroad spur line was constructed to the area in 1877, and a small town grew up around it. By the 1920s all of its businesses had failed, and by 1930 all but one building had succumbed to fire. The Holly Grove Methodist Church adjoined the cemetery, and was the site of many funeral services. The church was serving as a school when it burned in 1913. In 1958, a group of citizens raised money to assist with maintenance and upkeep of the cemetery. A bicentennial marker was erected by the Desha Historical Society in 1974. The southern section of the cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery is composed of two sections, as it is divided by Arkansas Highway 4. The northern section continues to be used for burials, while the southern section is the location of 90 historic graves. It is bounded by a golf course on the west, a pasture to the east, and Crooked Bayou to the south. Its entrance is marked by the bicentennial marker, and there is a narrow dirt road forming a U shape providing vehicular access through the grounds. The oldest grave is that of Benjamin Scott McGehee, an infant who lived one month in 1862. Many graves are of immigrants born in Europe. Claude W. James, who owned several businesses in Trippe Junction and rode with Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, is interred here.</p><br>
<p>The Antioch Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery is located at 500 North McKinney Road in Sherrill, Arkansas, behind the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church. The earliest graves contain the remains of emancipated slaves, originally enslaved on the Good Hope Plantation in South Carolina, but moved to Jefferson County, Arkansas in 1860. Reverenced Lewis Mazique, a leader in the community, was the earliest documented burial, in 1885. The cemetery continues to be used today, although infrequently.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Camp White Sulphur Springs Confederate Cemetery is an American Civil War cemetery in Arkansas. It is located northeast of the village of Sulphur Springs, also known as White Sulphur Springs, in Jefferson County.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The American Civil War started in April 1861 and White Sulphur Springs became a staging and training area for troops who came into Pine Bluff to be organized into units. In late July 1861, the 9th Arkansas Infantry Regiment was organized and trained at White Sulphur Springs and remained there for about a month before being shipped out to Tennessee. A few months later the Fagan&#39;s Guard, which later became the 2nd Arkansas Infantry Battalion, camped and trained near the springs before going on to Virginia.</p><br>
<p>By the spring of 1862, the war had reached Arkansas and the Battle of Pea Ridge, in the north part of the state, was fought. It had become evident that the Union Army had come to stay and would attempt to take the state by marching on Little Rock. However, most of the Confederate Army was ordered to leave the state and go across the Mississippi River to help defend against the Union invasion of Mississippi. This left Arkansas almost totally defenseless. Protests were made to the Confederate government, and the governor of the state started raising another army. The governor stopped troops from Texas that were headed east through Arkansas on their way to join the war. Many of them trained in White Sulphur Springs and fought in military actions in Arkansas. The Confederate Hospital was moved to White Sulphur Springs from Pine Bluff and was set up in the Poole Hotel which was the Female High School and the Methodist Church.</p><br>
<p>Troops that arrived at White Sulphur Springs from Texas and Oklahoma brought a measles epidemic with them and many of them died from the disease before even seeing a battlefield. Those who died were either buried in the Camp White Sulphur Springs Confederate Cemetery, which was near the Poole Hotel hospital, or where their camps were located throughout the community.</p><br>
<p>Camp White Sulphur Springs became a Confederate military base of operation for the defense of the Lower Arkansas and White Rivers, located nine miles southwest of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, which contained several encampments of instruction and organization of new recruits. These Camps, such as Camp Lee, Camp R. G. Shaver&#39;s, Camp Holmes, and other smaller camps were all located within one mile of the community of present-day Sulphur Springs in Jefferson County, Arkansas, which served as a Headquarters, Commissary, and Hospital facility for these operations.</p><br>
<p>It was used as a campground by a number of Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana units between late 1861 and early 1863. Many soldiers died of disease and were buried in this cemetery. Units known to have camped at the site include the 19th, 24th, 28th and 33rd Arkansas Infantry and Harts Arkansas Battery, Nutts and Denson&#39;s Louisiana Cavalry Companies, the 6th and 17th Texas Infantry and the 24th and 25th Texas Cavalry, Dismounted.</p><br>
<p>The Lone Star Baptist Church, also known as the Redfield Historical Society Building, is a repurposed building in Redfield, Arkansas. An excellent example of an early-20th-century Baptist church, the exterior is noted for its minimal decoration. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A local African-American Baptist congregation formed in 1890, and the church was built in 1901. It was used as a rural school until material became available to build one. The church operated until 1976. Church members deeded the building to the city of Redfield in 1993. The Redfield Historical Society manages the building and it is used for holiday choir performances, private weddings and public tours by appointment.</p><br>
<p>St. Peters Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in eastern Jefferson County, Arkansas. It is located east of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on the south side of Morgan Drive, about 2 mi west of Arkansas Highway 88. The 2 acre cemetery was established in 1827, and is one of the few surviving remnants of the former community of New Gascony, one of the countys oldest communities. The cemetery has lain dormant since 1927, and is maintained by volunteers.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Union Station is a former railroad station at East 4th Ave. and State St. in Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas. The station was originally at the union of the Cotton Belt and Iron Mountain railroads, and now houses the Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Historical Society museum. It is a single-story brick building, with a hip roof whose long eaves are supported by iron columns and half-truss brackets. The station was built in 1906 by the Iron Mountain Railroad. It had been a stop on the St. Louis Southwesterns Lone Star , and also on the railways St. Louis-Dallas trains.</p><br>
<p>Ownership reverted to the city in 1955.</p><br>
<p>The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The First United Methodist Church is a historic church building at 204 S. Main in Hamburg, Arkansas. The brick Gothic Revival building was built in 1910 for Hamburgs first organized congregation, founded in 1850, which had previously met in a wood-frame building on the same site. It was designed by the Nolley Brothers, who owned a local brickyard, and was based on Gothic Revival designs that one of them had observed at the St. Louis Worlds Fair.</p><br>
<p>The original building&#39;s main facade consisted of two towers, one higher than the other, flanking a single-story sanctuary section. Although the main roof spine runs between the towers, there is a large gable between the towers perpendicular to that line facing the front of the building. This gable end is decorated by a stained glass window designed for the church by the Jacoby Art Glass Company of St. Louis.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Hamburg Presbyterian Church is a historic church at the junction of Cherry and Lincoln Streets in Hamburg, Arkansas. The building, a single story wood-frame structure, has an unusual construction history. It was built in 1871, and was apparently stylistically decorated in Stick Style, although no historic photos of the building have been found. In c. 1920 the building underwent a series of alterations, including relocation or reconstruction of its tower to its present location, when it had originally been at the entrance. It is at this time that the cornice bracketing and half-timbering was added, giving the building a Craftsman style appearance.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It was sold to the Hamburg Garden Club in the 1980s, which maintained its c. 1920 appearance.</p><br>
<p>The Parkdale Baptist Church  is a historic Baptist church building at 137 Bride Street in Parkdale, Arkansas. The Late Gothic Revival style building was constructed in 1910, and is one of comparatively few buildings in southeastern Arkansas in that style. The building follows a modified cruciform plan. Its main Gothic Revival features include the pointed arch windows that predominate, twin towers, and gable ends with patterned-glass windows.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as "Parkdale Baptist Church-AS0051") in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Parkdale Methodist Church is a historic church on S. Church Street in Parkdale, Arkansas. Built out of rubble-faced and smooth concrete blocks that were shaped on site in 1926, it is an architecturally distinctive Plain-Traditional building with Classical Revival elements. The walls are lined with stained glass windows, and the entry is made through a recessed porch supported by Tuscan columns.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Council Grove Methodist Church is a historic church on Osage Mills Road in Osage Mills, Arkansas. It is a small single-story wood-frame structure with a steeply pitched gable roof. Its cornerboards have plain capitals, and its main entrance is sheltered by a shed-roof hood supported by brackets. Built c. 1890, it is a fine local example of vernacular rural church architecture.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Mt. Hebron M.E. Church South and Cemetery is a historic Methodist church and cemetery, located at 1079 Mt. Hebron Road in Colville, Arkansas, United States. The church is a simple traditional wood-frame church, built in 1904 for a congregation established in 1872. The adjacent cemetery also recorded its first burial that year. The church played a significant role in the growth and development of the community in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The New Home School and Church is a historic community building on McKisic Creek Road south of Bella Vista, Arkansas. It is a modest single-story wood-frame structure, with a gable roof, which lacks ornamentation. Its main facade has a double-door entrance, and the side facades have three bays of windows. Built c. 1900, it is a well-preserved example of a multifunction vernacular community building, which was used as a school during the week and as a church on Sundays. The school function was discontinued after schools in the area were consolidated.</p><br>
<p>It appears to have functioned as a one-room schoolhouse.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>St. Luke&#39;s Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church at 508 W. Pine in Warren, Arkansas. It is attended from Holy Redeemer Church in El Dorado, in the Diocese of Little Rock.</p><br>
<p>The historic structure was built in 1907, following a simple L-shaped plan with Gothic Revival styling. The exterior is concrete blocks that have been treated to look like ashlar stone. It was originally built for the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas and called St. Marys Church, but it never had a large congregation, and services ended in the late 1920s. It was vacant until its purchase in 1948 by the Catholic Church, which named it St. Lukes.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>New Zion AME Zion Church is a historic African Methodist church at the junction of Myrtle and Neely Streets in Warren, Arkansas. Built in 1927, it has a vernacular styling that includes Gothic and Romanesque Revival details, included castellated towers with parapet, and an arched entryway. Its interior fixtures, including pews, chancel railing, and beadboard tray ceiling, are in original condition, but the windows have been modernized.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Winona Church and School is a historic church on Rockhouse Road in Winona Township, Carroll County, Arkansas, USA. The building, a single story wood-frame structure with a gable roof, weatherboard siding, and modest Greek Revival styling, was built c. 1890 for use as both a school and a church, a common regional practice of the time. It originally had a small pyramidal belfry, but the bell was stolen and the belfry removed when the roof was replaced. Other alterations include the replacement of the old stone piers with concrete piers as its foundation.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church is a historic church on Arkansas Highway 159 South, 1 mi south of Eudora, Arkansas. The wood-frame church was built in 1900, and rebuilt in 1946 after sustaining significant storm damage. The building is clad in a combination of weatherboard and novelty siding, and is covered by a shingled cross-gable roof. It is topped by a short gable-roofed belltower. The front facade is symmetrically organized around the main entrance, with the door recessed in a projecting section with its own, lower, end gable. The double doors are flanked by three-over-one windows. The building is associated with the African-American community that developed in the area during the first half of the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The New Hope Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery is a cemetery on St. Marys Street in Lake Village, Arkansas. The cemetery is located adjacent to a modern church that is located on the site of churches that have served Lake Village&#39;s African American population since 1860.</p><br>
<p>The historic portion of the cemetery, east and south of the church, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It is the only known site associated with the area&#39;s large African American population from the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The Mount Olivet Methodist Church is a historic church building located on the Cleveland County, Arkansas fairgrounds near Rison, Arkansas. It is a simple rectangular structure built c. 1875, with twin entrances on one of the gable ends. The long sides of the church have four windows, while the rear wall has two, and the exterior has minimal decoration. The interior is a single chamber, again with minimal styling. The church was rescued from demolition in 1975 by the Cleveland County Historical Society, which moved it to the fairgrounds to be part of a display recreating a 19th-century Arkansas village.</p><br>
<p>The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It is believed to be the oldest Methodist church building in the county, and is one of its oldest structures.</p><br>
<p>The Mallettown United Methodist Church is a historic church at 274 Mallett Town Road in rural eastern Conway County, Arkansas. It is located in the hamlet of Mallet Town, at the northwest corner of County Road 54 and Town Circle. It is a single story masonry structure with a walkout basement, built out of fieldstone and cream-colored brick, both hallmarks of its builder, the regionally prominent African-American stonemason Silas Owens, Sr. Other elements of his style found on the building include the arched openings of the gabled entry porch. The church was built in 1947, when Owens&#39;s work was beginning reach wider notice in neighboring Faulkner County.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Mallettown Church is no longer affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The church became Mallettown Community Church around 2020.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Lutheran Church is a historic church near Atkins, Arkansas. It is located east of Winrock and north of Petit Jean State Park, on the east side of Montgomery Trace . It is a wooden plank-framed structure, with a weatherboard exterior, gabled roof, and cut fieldstone foundation. Its front facade is unadorned except for the entrance, which is simply framed, and the sides each have three sash windows. The interior has original finishes and simple hand-hewn pews. The church was built in 1886, and is one of the oldest Lutheran churches in Arkansas.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Mount Olive United Methodist Church is a historic church at Lafayette and Knox Streets in Van Buren, Arkansas. It is a rectangular single-story brick structure with Gothic Revival styling. Its main facade has a large Gothic-arch window below the main roof gable, and a squat square tower to its left, housing the entrance in a Gothic-arched opening. The church was built in 1889 for a congregation that consisted of recently emancipated African-American former slaves when it was organized in 1869. It is a significant local landmark in its African-American culture and history.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Van Buren Womens Literary Club is one of the oldest surviving literary societies of its type in the nation, founded in 1896 to improve the education of its members by providing access to books. The society is located at 421 Webster Street in Van Buren, Arkansas, in a historic Presbyterian church building built in 1903 on the foundations of the 1844 Old School Presbyterian Church. The building is a vernacular brick building with Late Gothic Revival features, supposedly designed by Reverend Finney, the pastor of the local Baptist church. The building was used as a church until 1919, when the Old School Church merged with other Presbyterian congregations. After serving briefly as the meeting house for a chapter of the Loyal Order of Moose, a fraternal organization, it was acquired by the Literary Club in 1921, and served as Van Burens library until the 1970s. Although Van Buren now has a separate public library, the society maintains a small library on the premises.</p><br>
<p>The society&#39;s building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Grace Episcopal Church is a historic church at 614 E. Poplar Street in Wynne, Arkansas. It is an architecturally eclectic single-story brick structure, built in 1917 for a newly formed congregation. It was built in part with materials donated by the Missouri-Pacific Railroad, which was then on a major depot-building campaign. The church is a distinctive regional example of an English country church, albeit with some Colonial Revival and Craftsman flourishes, and is relatively unaltered since its construction.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
