It is easy to go down a rabbit hole researching these small rural churches! In 1884 land was donated for a Black church in the little town of Rosedale. This 1917 building replaces the original 1886 church which burned. It is remarkably well maintained by its small congregation and the surrounding community.
The church started twenty years after the Civil War, some of its early members almost certainly formerly enslaved people. It was rebuilt during the Jim Crow era and it survives today with an average Sunday attendance of twenty. If walls could talk. . . .
