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Black plaque № 23636

Orange, TX, United States

Saint Paul Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. This African American congregation held informal worship services in homes and later in a nearby building before church trustees Josiah Hardin, William Holmes, Peter Rogers, Julius Sanders, and Silas Hardin acquired a town lot here for church building

purposes in 1894. That year a wood frame sanctuary was built and the congregation formally organized as the Saint Paul Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. According to local tradition, the congrega

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