Washington Church Traditional Cache
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The Washington United Methodist Church, located in Washington, MS,
was organized in 1799. The present building was erected in 1828.
This was the first Methodist church organized in Alabama,
Louisiana, or Mississippi. It has the oldest congregation and the
second oldest church building in Mississippi.
Services were held in a schoolhouse and the home of Randal Gibson
until 1805. A union church was then built near the Jefferson
College campus, and it was used by all denominations until it
burned in 1810. In 1812, a lot of the Jefferson College campus was
secured from Lorenzo Dow, and a brick church building was erected.
It was used until the present Methodist Church was constructed in
1828. This building was remodeled and the balconies were removed in
1902. A Sunday School annex, built in 1946, was removed and
replaced by the current fellowship building in 1995.
If you look closely at the bricks on the outside of the church,
you'll see carvings made by the cadets from Jefferson Military
College who would attend worship services during the late 1800s and
early 1900s. Many of the wooden pews inside also have names and
dates carved into the backs. Some of the windows still have panes
of hand-blown glass where you can see waviness and air bubbles in
the pane. The church is still in operation today.
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