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Jessamine Co., Ky. Churches
Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church
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The Nicholasville Presbyterian church was organized June 12, 1820. by Rev. John Lyle. The first church was erected when Rev. John Hudson was pastor. It was on the corner diagonally opposite the Jessamine Female Institute, occupied quite a large space, and had in connection with it, a burying-ground. The building was completed in 1825, but not dedicated until October 7, 1827.
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Clear Creek Presbyterian church was erected about 1829, and was organized by Rev. Nathan H. Hall. It was built entirely of stone, and the old seats and floors and pulpit are still intact.
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The first colored Baptist church in Nicholasville was organized in 1846. Rev. Robert Irvin was the first pastor.
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St. Luke, in Nicholasville, Ky. was erected in 1866 on ground deeded for that purpose by Moreau Brown. It was dedicated to the service of God in 1866 by Rev. Father Willie.
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Bethany Christian church was organized on the first of February. 1845, through the ministration of Jacob Creath, Samuel J. Pinkerton and James Simms.
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The Northern Methodist Church was erected in 1875.
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Nicholasville Christian Church was organized in the spring of 1828 by Elder George W. Elley. The first church building of this congregation was erected in 1830. The present buiilding was erected in 1874
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First Baptist Church was organized on the 10th of February, 1849, by a commission composed of Rev. R. T. Dillard, Joseph R. Barbee and E. Darnaby. There were only seventeen members then present. The current building was built in the year 1852.
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The first church building erected in Nicholasville was by the members of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1799. The frame church which stood on the same lot some twenty steps from the present building.
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African Methodist Episcopal Church on East Street in Nicholasville, and was organized September 15, 1845, by Rev. Samuel Miller.
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Colored Christian Church was erected in 1843 and for several years used as a house of worship, being then known as the Union Church. The church building was erected in 1890.
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