Bethel A.M.E. Church Williamsport, PA.

BETHEL A.M.E. CHURCH (1886)

WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA
11/12/1886 Bethel AME Church: Hepburn Street and Railroad Ave.
Cornerstone Laying
3/23/1888Bethel AME,Hepburn Street, Nearing Completion

8/19/1899 BethelAMEChurch: Celebrated Tenth Anniversary of
Dedication
6/20/01 Bethel AME Church Burns Mortgage
10/23/44 Bethel AME Suffers Fire
7/17/93 Bethel AME: City Church Old, But How Old? Anniversary to be
Marked Anyway

EBENEZAR BAPTIST CHURCH (1894)

4/30/1890EbenezerBaptistChurch:Purchases Park Avenue Lot

4/8/1894 EbenezerBaptistChurch: Ground Broken
6/28/1898 Ebenezer Baptist Contracts to Finish Church on Park Avenue
8/8/1898 Ebenezer Baptist: Cornerstone Laid
8/7/1899 Ebenezer Baptist: Dedicated

8/7/1899 Rev. G.L. Stith: Pastor ofEbenezerBaptistChurchin 1899

8/7/1899 EbenezerBaptistChurch: Located on Park Avenue and Locust
Streets, Dedicated, Rev. G.L. Stith, Pastor
2/14/62OMEAuxiliary-EbenezerBaptistChurch: 21st Anniversary

4/12/76 EbenezerBaptistChurchDamaged by Fire
2/20/94 Ebenezer Baptist: “Underground Railroad Club’s Rebirth Shines
a New Light on Stained Glass Window”

SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH (1899)

11/13/1899SalemAMEZion: Cornerstone Laid

5/28/94 SalemAME at 711 Maple: “City’s Population Change Spurs
Congregation’sSplit,” toMapleStreetAMEChurch,Williamsport,PA.

8/26/03 SalemAME: 67th Anniversary
9/14/03 Salem AME Zion: 67th Anniversary

SHILOH BAPTIST (1899)

7/25/1881 Shiloh Baptist: Cornerstone Laid
10/23/66 Shiloh Baptist: 85th Anniversary
10/24/79Shiloh Baptist: Centennial

By:  Minda Fogarty, Taylor Library,Williamsport,PA.& Edited By: Lawrence E. Walker Foundation, 2004