Houston, TX, United States
St. James United Methodist Church. In 1867, a small group of African Americans left Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church to organize a new methodist congregation closer 10 their homes in Freedmen's Town. They began worshipping under a brush arbor on Buffalo Bayou. in 1871, trustees purchased land and
built a permanent sanctuary on Howard at Second Street (now Bluebonnet Place Circle at Nash). during the annual methodist conference in 1873, the church was named West Point African Methodist Episcopa
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