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Hamilton County Churches

Photo of ST. Elmo Presbyterian Church

WPA Church Guide 1942

                                                 WPA 1942
                          Guide to Hamilton County Churches  

      Area- Church Name-Denomination-Year Established-Location- (Col)Colored


Alton Park  

Alton Park Missionary Baptist Church est.1905     4401 Ohls Ave.

Alton Park Church of the Nazarene   est.1929     4004 Dorris Ave.  

Sarah M. James Methodist Church  est.1894     4506 Highland Ave.  

St. Peter's Mission Methodist Episcopal   est.1924  W.38th St. and Ohio Ave.

Apison   

Apison Baptist Church,  est.1856     Apison  

High Point Missionary Baptist Church  est.1932     Apison  

Parker's Gap Missionary Baptist Church est.1913     E. Brainerd Rd.  

Apison Methodist Church est.1864     Apison  

Apison Presbyterian Church est.1910     Apison  

Avondale  

Avondale Missionary Baptist Church est.1893    Roanoke Ave. and Tinker St.  

Prospect Missionary Baptist Church  (Col.) est.1887     Citico and Dodson Ave.  

Avondale Church of Christ  est.1934  1700    N. Chamberlain Ave.  

Grace Memorial Methodist Church est.1875     Dodson Ave. and Willow St.

Bartlebaugh  

Bartlebaugh Missionary Baptist Church est.1911     Route 2, Chattanooga.   

Birchwood

Birchwood Missionary Baptist Church est.1873     Birchwood.  

New Liberty Missionary Baptist Church est.1934    Harrison-Birchwood Rd.  

Salem Missionary Baptist Church est.1835     Harrison-Birchwood Rd.  

Bozentown  

First Missionary Baptist Church of Bozentown,  (Col.) est.1931     Benton Ave.  

Joseph's Methodist Episcopal Chapel  est.1921     Wood and McChesney Ave.  

Brainerd  

Brainerd Missionary Baptist Church est.1927     4100 Albemarle Ave.  

Brainerd Church of Christ   est.1931       3905  Old Mission Rd.  

Brainerd Methodist Church est.1895       4315 Brainerd Rd.  

Brainerd Presbyterian Church est.1939       4205 Brainerd Rd.  

O.L.P.H. , Roman Catholic  est.1937       S. Moore Rd and Anderson Ave.  

Brown Town  

Union Springs Interdenominational Church est.1915      Brown Town Rd.  

Bushtown 

Orchard Knob Missionary Baptist Church,  (Col.)  est.1887   Hawthorne and E. 3rd. St.  

St. Paul's Missionary Baptist Church  est.1906       N. Watkins and Vine St.

Good Hope Baptist Church,  (Col.)   est.1920       1234 Garfield St.  

Monteagle Baptist Church  est.1912       1234 Garfield St.

Shiloh Baptist Church est.1933      1615 Preston St.  

East Third Street Church of God  (Col.)   est.1938     1252 E. 3rd. St.  

Church of God in Christ (Col.)No. 3, est.1936     2123 Citico Ave.  

St. James Church of God in Christ  est.1937     Cleveland Ave. and O'Neal St.  

Clegg's Methodist Episcopal Zion Chapel est.1889     356 North Holly St.  

Churchville  

Galilee Missionary Baptist Church, (Col.)  est.1934     1900 Citico Ave.  

Rose of Sharon Baptist Church,  est.1931     2001 Blackford St.

Tucker's Baptist Chapel  est.1913     Garfield and O'Neal St.  

Mount Olive Baptist Church  (Col.)No. 1, est.1891     2108 Walker Ave.  

The House of God, Which is the Church of the Living God, (Col.)The Pillar and Ground of the Truth Without Controversy, est.1908     2020 Blackford St.  

Zion  Church of God in Christ(Col.)1933      666 Lincoln St.  

Stanley Memorial Methodist Church (Col.)   est.1878      Dodson Ave. and Blackford St.  

Collegedale  

Collegedale Seventh Day Adventist Church,  est.1916      Collegedale  

Coulterville  

Coulterville MissionaryBaptist Church, est.1935      Coulterville  

Daisy  

Daisy Seventh Day Adventist Church   est.1915      Daisy

Daisy Missionary Baptist Church   est.1878      Old Dayton Pike  

Daisy  Church of Christ   est.1930      Daisy  

Daisy  Church of God   est.1919      Daisy.  

Daisy Congregational Church   est.1934      Daisy.  

Daisy Methodist Church   est.1871          Daisy.  

Downtown  

Seventh Day Adventist Church (Col.)   est.1904     1001 8th. St.

Central Church  est.1887     McCallie Ave. and Palmetto St.  

First Baptist Church  est.1840     Oak St. and Georgia Ave.  

First Missonary Baptist Church (Col)   est.1866     506 E. 8th. St.  

Friendship Missonary Baptist Church (Col)  est.1889     938 Red St.  

Jehovah Missonary Baptist Church   (Col)  est.1933     917 Poplar St.  

New Monumental Missonary Baptist Church  (Col)  est.1890     715 E. 8th. St.

New Zion Missonary Baptist Church  (Col)  est.1912     Wall and E. 11th. St.  

Olivet Missonary Baptist Church  (Col)  est.1921     921 University Place

Pilgrim Rest Missonary Baptist Church  (Col)  est.1928     828 E. 5th. St.  

St. James Missonary Baptist Church  (Co1)  est.1886     823 Mabel St.  

Springfield Missonary Baptist Church  (Col)  est.1932     418 E. 10th. St.   

Central Church of Christ   est.1909     Vine St.  and Lindsay St.

Church of the First Born of the Living God Church of God (Col.)  est.1938   300 E. 10th. St.

Pilgrim Congregational Church  est.1914      Oak St. and Lindsay St.  

First Congregational Church,   (Col.)  est.1867     901 Lindsay St.  

First Christian Disciples of Christ Church   est.1871     E. 7th. St. and Georgia Ave.  

Galatia  Church of God in Christ   (Col.)  est.1927     746 E. 10th. St.

Chattanooga Gospel Tabernacle Interdenominational   est.1936     624 Houston St.  

B'nai Zion Congregation Jewish   est.1888     Vine St. and Mabel St.  

Mizpah Congregation Jewish   est.1866     922 McCallie Ave.  

Shara Zion Congregation Jewish  est.1904      514 Carlisle Place.  

Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints est.1888  Memorial Auditorium, McCallie Ave. and Lindsay St.  

Church of the Ascension, Lutheran   est.1913     Lindsay St. and E. 8th. St.  

Centenary Methodist Church   est.1840     McCallie Ave. and Lindsay St.

First Methodist Church  est.1865     Georgia Ave. and McCallie Ave.  

Trinity Methodist Church   est.1899     860 McCallie Ave.   

Wiley Memorial Methodist Church, (Col.) est.1867     500 Lookout St.

Warren's Methodist Episcopal Chapel  est.1871     Chestnut St. and 6th. St.

Thompkins Methodist Episcopal Zion Chapel est.1875   Flynn St. and Palmetto St.  

Pilgrim Holiness Mission   est.1935-40      616 E. Main St.

First Presbyterian Church  est.1841     Oak St. and Lindsay St.  

First Presbyterian Church   est.1840     McCallie Ave. and Douglas St.

Second Presbyterian Church   est.1871     Pine St. and W. 7th. St.  

Third Presbyterian Church   est.1911     705 Oak St.  

Leonard Street Presbyterian Church   est.1888     401 W. 10th. St.  

Christ Protestant Episcopal Church   est.1900     543 McCallie Ave.

St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church   est.1853     401 W. 7th. St.

St. Mary the Virgin Protestant Episcopal Mission   est.1915      614 E. 8th.St.

East Chattanooga  

Stewart Street Baptist Mission  est.1938      2001 Stewart St.  

Chamberlain Avenue Missionary Baptist Church  est.1909     N. Chamberlain Ave. and Boone St.   

East Chattanooga Missionary Baptist Church   est.1888     Cushman St. and Taylor St.

Oakwood Missionary Baptist Church  est.1840     1866 Oakwood Dr.  

Rock Island Missionary Baptist Church (Col.)  est.1873     2104 Farleigh St.  

Sherman Hill Church of Christ  est.1915     Amnicola Highway.  

Church of God  est.1918     2110 Glass St.

King Memorial Methodist Church   est.1889     2700 Taylor St.

Manker Memorial Methodist Church  est.1889     2703 N. Chamberlain Ave.

St. John's Methodist Church   est.1880     2211 Ocoee St.  

Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church  est.1884     2005 Walker Ave.

East Lake  

Advent Christina Church   est.1939      3808 12th. Ave.  

Clifton Hills Missionary Baptist Church  est.1924      Rossville Blvd. and E. 37th. St.  

Clio Avenue Missionary Baptist Church   est.1940     3701 Clio Ave.  

East Lake Missionary Baptist Church   est.1907     12th. Ave. and 34th. St.

Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church  (Col.)  est.1904     4303 7th. Ave.  

Community Church of God Chapel  est.1921     4300 10th. Ave.

East Lake Church of the Nazarene1929     4009 12th. Ave.   

Union Congregational Church  (Col.)  est.1892     3204 14th. Ave.  

East Lake Disciples of Christ Church  est.1898      E.38th. St. and Dodds Ave.

East Lake Methodist Church   est.1889      12th.Ave. and E.37th. St.

First Wesleyan Methodist Church  est.1939       4th. Ave. and E.36th. St.  

Second Presbyterian Church  est.1931     4318 13th. Ave.

East Ridge  

East Ridge Seventh Day Adventist Church est.1907      McBrien Rd.

East Ridge Missionary Baptist Church est.1940      Ringgold Rd.  

Spring Creek Missionary Baptist Church  est.1860       Spring Creek Rd.  

Jones Memorial Methodist Church   est.1927      Ringgold Rd. and Cemetery Rd.  

Eastdale  

Eastdale Missionary Baptist Church est.1882      810 Shallowford Rd.

Antioch Missionary Baptist Church (Col.)  est.1892      Plumwood St.  

Fort Cheatham  

Philadelphia Missionary Baptist Church  est.1939      17th. St. and Lyerly St.

New Enon Missionary Baptist Church (Col.)  est.1930      2311 12th. Ave.  

United Church of God  est.1929      2317  7th. Ave.

Harris Methodist Episcopal Zion Chapel  est.1879      2400 12th. Ave.

Fort Wood  

Allen's Methodist Episcopal Temple  est.1892      1014 E. 4th. St.

Triumph The Church and Kingdom of God in Christ  (Col.)  est.1932      400 Central Ave.  

Foust  

Edgewood Missionary Baptist Church  est.1928      2007 E. 27th. St.

Summerfield Missionary Baptist Church  est.1928      2007 E. 26th. St.  

Candler Memorial Methodist Church  est.1940      2106 E. 25th. St.  

Georgetown  

Georgetown Missionary Baptist Church  est.1883      Georgetown Highway.

New Union Missionary Baptist Church  est.1861      3 miles south of Georgetown.  

Glendale  

Mountain Creek Missionary Baptist Church  est.1859      Route 5.

Signal Hill Missionary Baptist Church  est.1926      Jones Station, N. Chattanooga.

Signal Hill Church of Christ Church  est.1932      Jones Station, N. Chattanooga.  

Harrison  

Friendship Missionary Baptist Church  est.1854      Friendship.  

Greenwood Missionary Baptist Church  est.1910      Snow Hill Rd. and Greenwood Rd.

Harrison Missionary Baptist Church  est.1850      Harrison Pike.

Maple Grove Missionary Baptist Church  est.1932      Banther Rd.  

New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church  est.1908      Chattanooga-Birchwood Rd.

Mount Joy Missionary Baptist Church (Col.)  est.1898      Oakwood Drive.  

Highland Park  

First Seventh Day Adventist Church  est.1895     1916 Duncan Ave.  

Highland Park Missionary Baptist Church  est.1890     1901 Union Ave.  

Church of God  est.1908     13 Watkins St.  

First Church of the Nazarene  est.1919     Main St. and Willow St.

Highland Park Disciples of Christ Church  est.1887     2000 Bailey Ave.  

First Lutheran Church  est.1870     Bailey Ave. and Hickory St.  

Asbury Methodist Church  est.1887     1901 Bailey Ave.

St. Andrews Church  est.1890     1916 Union Ave.  

Central Presbyterian Church  est.1891      1815 McCallie Ave.

Grace Memorial Protestant Episcopal Church  est.1887     1614 Kirby Ave.

Shinn Memorial Universalist Church   est.1907     1619 E. Main St.  

Hixson  

Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church  est.1939     Hixson Pike  

Friendship Missionary Baptist Church  est.1938     Hixson

Hixson Missionary Baptist Church  est.1923     Hixson

Middle Valley Missionary Baptist Church  est.1932     Route 2.

Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church  est.1901      Gann's Rd.

Hixson Missionary Baptist Church (Col.)  est.1929     Jasper Rd.

Hixson  Church of Christ  est.1935     Grubb Rd.  

Burke's Methodist Chapel  est.1873     Hixson  

Fairview Methodist Church, 1900     Route 1.  

Hixson MethodistChurch  est.1840     Hixson

Jackson's Methodist Chapel  est.1840      Goldpoint Rd.

Hixson Methodist Church (Col.)  est.1914     Mill Rd.  

Lookout Mountain  

First Missionary Baptist Church  (Col.)  est.1904      203 N. Bragg Ave.  

Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church  est.1892      316 N. Bragg Ave.

Lupton City  

Lupton City Church of Christ  est.1928     Dixie Circle Lupton City  

Lupton City Methodist Church  est.1935      Lupton City

Missionary Ridge  

Mission Ridge Missionary Baptist Church (Col.)  est.1868      239 Shallowford Rd.  

North Chattanooga  

Calvary Missonary Baptist Chruch  est.1926     Bell Ave. and May St.  

Northside Missonary Baptist Church  est.1886     Mississippi Ave. and Tremont St.

Northside Church of Christ est.1924     212 Woodland Ave.  

Woodland Heights Church of Christ Church  est.1938     Woodland Station.

North Chattanooga Church of God  est.1915     19 W. Bell Ave.  

Forrest Avenue Methodist Church  est.1880     120 Forrest Ave.

St. Mark's MethodistChurch, 1888    . 701 Mississippi Ave.  

Hurst Memorial Methodist Church  (Col.)  est.1866     901 Dallas Rd.  

Northside Presbyterian Church  est.1886     923 Mississippi Ave.  

Northside Gospel Presbyterian Mission  est.1920     N. Market St. and Frazier Ave.

Oak Grove

Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church  est.1911      1800 Mulberry St.

Woodland Park Missionary Baptist Church  est.1914      1512 S. Holtzclaw Ave.  

Ooltewah  

Antioch Missionary Baptist Church  est.1842     Ooltewah.

Cross Roads Missionary Baptist Church  est.1880     Georgetown-Ooltewah Highway.  

Fairview Missionary Baptist Church  est.1938     Route 1.  

First Missionary Baptist Church  est.1868     Main St.

Providence Missionary Baptist Church  est.1866    Route 1.  

First Missionary Baptist Church  (Col.)  est.1908     Ooltewah.

St. Peter's Missionary Baptist Church  est.1897     Summit.

Ooltewah Methodist Church  est.1870     Ooltewah.

Ooltewah Methodist Church  (Col.)  est.1875     Ooltewah.  

Field's Methodist Episcopal Zion Chapel   est.1898     Summit.  

Orange Grove  

Wisdom Memorial Methodist Church  est.1911      E. Main St. and Polk St.  

Park City  

Beulah Missionary Baptist Church (Col.) est.1927      1301 Commerce St.

Church of God and Saints in Christ (Col.)  est.1910      2621 Cannon St.

Park City Methodist Episcopal Mission  est.1917      2722 Cannon St.  

Red Bank

Red Bank Missionary Baptist Church  est.1886      3900 Ashland Terrace.

Red Bank Church of Christ  est.1931      3704 Dayton Blvd.  

Red Bank Methodist Church  est.1849      3800 Dayton Blvd.  

Red Bank Methodist Church  est.1878      Route 5.

Ridgedale 

Church of the Open Door Missionary Baptist   est.1937     406 Dodds Ave.  

Ridge Junction Missionary Baptist Church  est.1920    Dodds Ave. and Chamberlain Ave.  

Ridgedale Missionary Baptist Church  est.1908     Dodds Ave. and Bailey Ave.  

Chattanooga Primitive Baptist Church   est.1910     2502 E. 12th. St.  

Ridgedale Church of Christ  est.1915    1211 Dodds Ave.

Church of God of the Union Assembly  est.1921     2009 S. Lyerly St.  

The Original Church of God  est.1907     2209 E. 17th. St.  

Ridgedale Methodist Church  est.1888     1611 Dodds Ave.

Ringgold Road Methodist Church  est.1889     1512 Ringgold Rd.  

Westminster Presbyterian Church  est.1883 406 Dodds Ave.  

First United Brethren Church   est.1806      Dodds Ave. and Duncan Ave.  

Rossville  

Rossville Missionary Baptist Tabernacle  est.1925      4803 13th. Ave.

Rossville Church of Christ  est.1910      2812 East 47th. St.

In-As-Much-Protestant EpiscopalMission  est.1917      1614 E. 48th.St.  

Ryall's Springs  

Concord Missionary Baptist Church   est.1848      Brainerd Rd.  

Morris Hill Missionary Baptist Church  est.1909      Morris Hill Rd.  

Westview Cumberland Presbyterian Church  est.1851     Route 6, Chattanooga.  

St. Elmo  

St. Elmo Missionary Baptist Church  est.1866     4500 St. Elmo Ave.

South St. Elmo Missionary Baptist Church  est.1934     W.56th. St. and Tennessee Ave.  

St. Elmo Missionary Baptist Church (Col.)  est.1890     810 W. 37th. St.  

St. James Missionary Baptist Church  est.1932     130 W. 45th. St.  

St. Cephas Primitive Baptist Church  (Col.)  est.1918     3411 George St.

St. Elmo Church of Christ   est.1913     W. 48th. St. and St. Elmo Ave.  

St. Elmo Church of Christ   est.1883     4624 St. Elmo Ave.  

Patten Memorial Methodist Episcopal Zion Church  est.1886     3817 Church St.  

Brick Store Presbyterian Mission  est.1930     3405 St. Elmo Ave.  

St. Elmo Presbyterian Church  est.1889     4400 St. Elmo Ave.  

Thankful Memorial Protestant Episcopal Church  est.1905    Alabama Ave. and Thankful Place.

Sale Creek 

Sale Creek Missionary Baptist Church  est.1932      Sale Creek  

Sale Creek Presbyterian Church  est.1906      Sale Creek  

Sale Creek Church of God  est.1913      Sale Creek

Sale Creek Methodist Church  est.1893      Sale Creek  

Sale Creek Presbyterian Church  est.1885      Sale Creek  

Shepherd  

Shepherd MissionaryBaptist Church, est.1902      Route 6, Chattanooga.  

Pilgrim Rock Missionary Baptist Church, (Col.)  est.1887     Route 6, Chattanooga.  

St. James Methodist Episcopal Church,  est.1898       Route 6, Chattanooga.  

Signal Mountain  

Mountain View Missionary Baptist Church  est.1935      Olson Ave.  

Signal Mountain Church of God  est.1932      Timesville Rd.  

Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church  est.1929      715 James Blvd.  

Silverdale

Standifer Gap Seventh Day Adventist Church  est.1933      Silverdale  

Silverdale Missionary Baptist Church  est.1889      Silverdale  

Soddy  

New Salem Missionary Baptist Church  est.1933      Dallas Rd.  

Oak Street Missionary Baptist Church   est.1894      Oak St.

Pilgrim's Rest Missionary Baptist Church  est.1936       Back Valley Rd.

Union Fork Missionary Baptist Church  est.1839    Union Fork Rd.    

Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church (Col.)  est.1926     Soddy  

Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church   est.1929     Route 2.  

Soddy Methodist Church  est.1866     Soddy.

Soddy Methodist Episcopal Zion Church  est.1880    Route 2.  

Soddy Presbyterian Church  est.1828     Main Street.

Mowbray Presbyterian Church  est.1931     Mowbray

South Chattanooga

Long Street Missionary Baptist Mission  est.1941      26th. and Long St.  

Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church  est.1873     2100 Long St.

Antioch Missionary Baptist Church  est.1934     1308 Slayton St.

Antioch Missionary Baptist Church  est.1892      W. Main St. and Cedar St.

Carter Street Missionary Baptist Church  est.1898     1955 Carter St.  

Emanuel Missionary Baptist Church  est.1915     27 W. 24th. St.  

Greater St. John's Missionary Baptist Church  est.1930     100 E. 23rd. St.  

Greater Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church  est.1911     2634 Williams St.  

Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church  est.1913     1616 Washington St.

Mount Paran Missionary Baptist Church  est.1879     1920 Cowart St.   

New Hope Missionary Baptist Chuch  est.1905     1809 Kerr St.

St. Mary's Missionary Baptist Church  est.1922     316 W. 29th. St.

Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church  est.1926     1708 S. Market St.

Thankful Missionary Baptist Church  est.1933     2125 Read Ave.  

Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church  est.1921     2740 Williams St.  

Union Hill Missionary Baptist Church   est.1886     2500 Long St.  

West Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church  est.1929     410 W. 40th. St.  

Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church  est.1924      Read Ave. and 22nd. St.

Mount Olive Primitive Baptist Church  est.1908     50 W. 24th. St.

New Sardis Primitive Baptist Church  est.1898     1622 Carr St.  

St. Ruth's Primitive Baptist Church  est.1926     1000 Elm St.  

Cowart Street Church of Christ Church   est.1887     2112 Cowart St.  

Church of Christ (Col.)  est.1926     W.19th. and Williams St.  

Church of God   est.1938     W.28th.St. and Long St.  

House of Prayer  (Col.)  est.1936     421 North Hickory St.  

Church of God in Christ No. 2  (Col.)  est.1931     2102 Fort St.

Church of the Living God Temple 108 (Col.)  est.1938     2319 Chestnut St.  

New Bethel Church,Fire Baptized Holiness (Col.)  est.1917     1800 Kerr St.  

Broad Street Methodist Church    est.1871      2108 Broad St.

Howard Methodist Episcopal Mission   est.1938      Chestnut and W.25th. St.  

St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church  est.1897     2514 Williams St.

Alleyne Memorial Methodist Episcopal Zion Chapel  est.1936     1601 Williams St.  

Phillip's Methodist Temple Colored  est.1893     1213 Grove St.  

St. Mary's Methodist Church Colored   est.1928     1900 Washington St.  

Triumph, The Church and Kingdom of God in Christ  (Col.)   est.1917     2415 1/2 Long St.  

Tannery Flats  

Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church (Col.) est.1923      755 W. 6th. St.  

Friendship Primitive Baptist Church  est.1912      1353 Ross St.  

Grace Memorial Methodist Church (Col.)  est.1898      620 Cross St.

Quinn Methodist Episcopal Chapel  est.1895      1218 Ross St.  

First St. James Episcopal Church  est.1889      911 W. Fourteenth St.  

Second Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Col.)  est.1934      1022 Cross St.  

Tyner  

Tyner Missionary Baptist Church  est.1838      Tyner-Harrison Highway.  

Hawkinsville Missionary Baptist Church  (Col.)  est.1907      Tyner.  

Tyner Methodist Church  est.1844     Tyner.  

Walden's Ridge 

Falling Water Misssionary Baptist Church est.1906      Falling Water

Johnson's Interdenominational Chapel  est.1932      Falling Water

Fairmount Methodist Church  est.1857      Signal Mountain

Falling Water Cumberland Presbyterian Church est.1884      Falling Water  

Wauhatchie  

Lookout Valley Missionary Baptist Church  est.1928      Wauhatchie

Patten Presbyterian Chapel  est.1915      Brown's Ferry Rd.  

Westside  

Mount Calvary Missonary Baptist Church  (Col.)  est.1932     1401 Carter St.  

Second Missonary Baptist Church (Col.)  est.1866      1324 Grove St.  

Antioch Church No. 2 (Col.)  est.1933      927 W. 14th. St.  

Friendship  Primitive Baptist Church   est.1900     831 W. 11th. St.

West Side United Church of God  est.1939     307 Charles St.  

Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas (Col.)

New Zion Church  est.1913      1130 Grove St.

Hamlett's Methodist Mission  (Col)  est.1932     2301 Long St.  

White Oak  

White Missionary Baptist Oak  Church  est.1924      Memorial Dr.  

Church of the Nazarene  est.1925      217 DeFeu St.  

White Oak Methodist Church   est.1927      Memorial Dr.  

Source: Guide to Church Vital Statistics in Tennessee - WPA - 1942 - page 125 - 179 

Asbury United Methodist Church,

 originally Highland Park Methodist Episcopal Church, is a historic church on Bailey Avenue.

The congregation was organized in 1889 as the Highland Park Methodist Episcopal Church. The congregation soon moved into a new frame church that it used for about 20 years before completing the current building. The current church building is a brick structure in a Gothic design created by architect Reuben Harrison Hunt. It was completed in 1909, dedicated in 1911, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Highland Park Methodist Episcopal Church changed its name to Asbury Methodist Church in 1938, when the Methodist Episcopal Church and Methodist Episcopal Church, South, merged. It later added "United" to its name when the United Methodist Church was formed. Another local congregation with a similar name, Highland Park Methodist Episcopal Church, South, became St. Andrew's Methodist Church and later St. Andrew's United Methodist Church.  Asbury United Methodist Church closed on July 1, 1984. Its congregation merged with Brainerd United Methodist Church and the church property was sold to Highland Park Baptist Church, which renamed the former Asbury Methodist building as the "Asbury Chapel". St. Andrew's closed in 2004.When Highland Park Baptist Church relocated to Harrison, Tennessee, in 2013, it sold Asbury Chapel and six other buildings in the Highland Park neighborhood to Redemption Point Church, a Church of God congregation based in Ooltewah.


Bartlebaugh Baptist Church
Bartlebaugh Baptist Church - 1940

     Bartlebaugh Baptist Church has a rich past and a glorious future.  This "hallowed ground" stands as a monument to the vision of a preacher and people who lived many years ago.  Here Reverend John Bartlebaugh labored, and grateful people gave his name to the church and community.  Within eight miles of Chattanooga, Chickamauga Lake now covers most of what was once Bartlebaugh.

The present building site and cemetery belonged to the Champion family.  The United Brethren began a mission in which both Methodists and Baptists took turns holding services.  The Baptists acquired the site and building in 1926.  In 1964 the church bought nearly four acres of land directly across Old Harrison Pike.  The first building, now over 100 years old, is presently bricked into the sanctuary.  Around 1952 an education annex was built.  In November, 1969, ground was broken for the children's building which was completed in March of 1970.

With many of the descendants of people who once lived in Tennessee River bottom lands and new members from growing subdivisions, the membership aims to carry on the work of Christ begun by it's first preacher and pastor.

Submitted by Susan Kendall  SusieQ11


 East Brainerd Church of Christ  
    The first worship service at East Brainerd Church of Christ was on December 8, 1946, at the East Brainerd Elementary School. Thirty-five people were present for the worship; twenty six attended the Bible study. Shortly before this a gospel meeting was held in a tent at the corner of Graysville and East Brainerd Roads.

Late in the year 1947 a lot on Graysville Road was purchased. A frame structure, 30 feet by 50 feet, was built there, providing an auditorium, two classrooms, and two restrooms. In 1962  A new building was constructed and an open house was held on December 16, 1962.

To facilitate future growth, the church purchased 22.96 acres at 7745 East Brainerd Road, where the present facility was completed in 1972. Additions to this facility occurred in 1985, 1987 and the Family Life Center was added in 1994.

Serving now as our ministers are Glen Gray, involvement minister; Tom Norvell, minister of family & youth; Dave Mellor, evangelism minister.

In January 2000, the East Brainerd congregation had approximately 550 members. In the year 2002 we have approximately 670. Average attendance for Sunday morning worship services in 2001 was 632.

Submitted by June Cooper

 

Greenwood Baptist Church

     The Church located on Snow Hill Road and Greenwood Road, was organized in 1910.  It was originally called Padgett's Chapel.  The first pastor was the Rev. F. J. Hoge.  The original frame building was erected in 1922 on land purchased from Homer Shirley.  Early ministers were  Robert Talley, L. H. Sylar, Warren L. Scoggins, and Lewis Sylar. A new building was completed in 1982 and the old bell tower was kept, and it is now located on the property. 

Greenwood Baptist Church is celebrating its centennial this year. In the year 1908, Rev. Flauvious J. Hoge, a Baptist minister, came to the little frame building known as Padgett’s Chapel.

This building was also nicknamed “Trickum” and had been donated to the community by Dr. Benjamin Padgett for school and church purposes. The Methodist and the United Brethren previously had churches at this same building.

     In the year 1908, Rev. F.J. Hoge, assisted by Rev. Curtain, held a two-week revival with great results. Many souls were saved. At the close of the revival, Rev. Hoge baptized a number into Crossroads Baptist Church with the understanding that they would be members of the new church when it was organized. In the fall of 1909, the new church was organized with approximately 35 members. One acre of ground was purchased from Mr. Homer Shirley. Timber was cut and residents of the community gave their time building the new church.

     The church consisted of an auditorium with curtains separating four classrooms. Rev. Jerome Cofelt preached the doctrinal sermon and on the day of organization the new church was named Greenwood Baptist Church. Rev. F.J. Hoge filled the pulpit until a pastor was elected.

Brother Owen Smith was later elected and served as pastor until 1913. The church was accepted in the Ocoee Association (which is now the Hamilton County Association). During Brother Smith’s pastorate, J.H. Scoggins was ordained as deacon in the summer of 1912. Later Brother Smith resigned, and the church was without a pastor until 1914 when Brother Robert Tally was elected and served as pastor until the fall of 1915.

     In 1915, Brother Lewis H. Sylar served as pastor for about a year. In 1917, Brother Tally was called back for a short time. Brother W.L. Scoggins was ordained as a Baptist minister, and he pastored the church for about a year until in 1919 Brother A.P. Galiheir was called as pastor and served for about two years. In the fall of 1921, Rev. William Hamic from Avondale Baptist Church erected a tent on the site where the church now stands. He held a four-week revival and there were over a hundred souls saved and rededicated. At the end of the revival, Brother Hamic baptized 50 souls into the church. Rev. Hamic was called as pastor and soon thereafter land was purchased for a new church.

The church was built in 1921 and 1922 with public donations and labor. The members and friends of the church furnished the timber. Rev. Hamic served as pastor until 1923.

     Next Brother Joe Reed was called as pastor and served until 1925. From this time the list of pastors is as follows: Rev. S.N. Hamic (1925-1927), Rev. Fred Lane (1927-1930), Rev. Ed Shadwick (1930-1933), Rev. Lewis H. Sylar (1933-1941), Rev.W.A. Wilhoit (1941-1942), Rev. Lewis H. Sylar (1942-1946), Rev. Tom Shield (1946-48), Rev. S.M. Hamic (1948-1949), Rev. Henry Burns (1949-1953), Rev. Lewis Smartt (1953-1954), Rev. E.M. Rackley (1954-1962).

Brother Rackley was pastor when Sunday school rooms were added to the church. In 1962, Rev. Ira Bishop was elected pastor and served until 1963. Brother Henry Burns was called back as pastor and served from 1963-1967. In 1967, Brother Virgil became pastor and served until 1971. The Rev. Raymond Kelly was elected as pastor in 1971 and served until 1974.

     In 1974, Rev. James Vaughn was called to the church and faithfully served as pastor for 26 1/2 years. Under his leadership, a large fellowship building was built adjacent to the church in 1977. The building was built debt-free with help from the members. This fellowship building was dedicated in memory of Brother Harold Smith who was a deacon of the church and a faithful worker on the building. Brother Smith died from injuries caused by a logging accident in 1978.

In April of 1982, construction was started on the present church. The construction was finished in October of 1982 and the new church was dedicated on October 17, 1982.

On October 12, 1983, three acres surrounding the church was purchased. It is presently in the process of being developed for a children’s playground.

In March of 1992, a 7200-square foot recreational building was built. Six more Sunday school rooms were completed in June of 1992. When Brother Vaughn resigned in 2001, the recreational facility (gym) was renamed James Vaughn Family Life Center.

     Presently, the church has an approximate membership of 600 members.

Brother Darrell Broome served as pastor from 2002 until 2004, then Rev. David McNabb served as pastor from 2005-2007. In 2007, the current pastor, Rev. Toby Brogden was called to serve as pastor. Church officials said, "Under his leadership, our hope for the future is bright and we look with great expectancy for the return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."

Mr. Brogden said, "In the eight years of serving at Greenwood Baptist Church, it has been easy for me to discover how God has used this church to be a light in this community for 100 years."

Molly Marie Evans has been a member of GBC for 74 years.

In celebration of the church's Centennial, Greenwood Baptist Church will be hosting a dinner. Ticket prices are $12. Dinner begins at 6 p.m. on Oct. 10 in the gym. Entertainment begins immediately following the dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets are only required for the dinner. No tickets required for the singing.

James H. Vaughn will be holding the service on Sunday, Oct. 11.

Information submitted by Phebe Morgan  phebem@comcast.net

 

Hicks Chapel

An early Methodist group organized Hicks Chapel in 1849.  The church and its adjoining graveyard were located on Morrison Springs Road near present Red Bank.  The early log structure, built by the cooperative efforts of those who worshipped there, stood on land donated by Alfred Rogers and William Gray, principal real estate owners in that section.  Edward E. Wylie, Thomas and John Hartman, John Walker, James C. Connor, John Brown, and Monroe Lusk worked faithfully during the early years.

(Source: History of Hamilton Co, Tn. Page 55)


Lookout Valley Presbyterian Church

Patten Chapel Interdenominational Church

 Patten Chapel Interdenominational Church was established in 1905. Many pastors served the church part time through the years. However, the first full time pastor to serve the church in 1936 was Assistant Pastor of Chattanooga First Presbyterian Church, Reverend Willard Alexander Peek. There is not much known about the early years of the church, because the original church was almost destroyed by fire in the mid-1930s, and all the church documents were destroyed in the fire. In 1939, the church congregation purchased the old Patten Chapel Grammar School for $1000.00 for Sunday school classes. Later the church remodeled the school building, and this became the second home of the church. The original church building was sold for $450.00; it was dismantled and hauled away. On March 31, 1946, the congregation of the church after a long discussion with the old Knoxville Presbytery formed the Lookout Valley Presbyterian Church. Reverend Willard Peek officially became the first pastor of Lookout Valley Presbyterian and served it for another twenty-eight years. Because of the rapid growth the church experienced, in nine years groundbreaking of a new church building was to hold on May 22, 1955. On March 25, 1956, the new church building was completed and used for its first Sunday services.

In 1992, a major split in Lookout Valley Presbyterian Church occurred for theological differences. As a result of this split, many members established, Mountain View Presbyterian which is in the Presbyterian Church in America denomination. Mountain View Presbyterian Church is located on Brown’s Ferry Road.

Today Lookout Valley Presbyterian Church is still an active Presbyterian church. However, it is now in the Southeast Presbytery that serves the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and is still in its original location on Patten Chapel Road.

Submitted by Alex McKeel  richardamc

 

Lookout Valley
Primitive Baptist Church
1800 - 1975

"The Little White Church at The Top of the Hill Down in the Valley"

1136 Brown's Ferry Road Route 8 Chattanooga, Tennessee 37409

Written by and used with the permission of
Joyce Nell Beck TruittTexas1933@aol.com

    Prior to 1800, several citizens of the lower, or north end of Lookout Valley, Hamilton County, Tenn. attended church at Good Hope Primitive Baptist Church on Mountain Creek, near the place now the property of the Cement Plant. The land at that time belonged to the Sivley family.

    Good Hope Church was across Tennessee River from the northern end of Lookout Valley, thus these faithful members had to cross Tennessee River at William's Island to attend church.

    Good Hope Church "extended an arm" to lower Lookout Valley so church services could be held in that area. These first services were held in an old "Slave House," the property of one Thomas Boydston. This was a log house with a "mud and stick" chimney and fireplace. It stood at the foot of "Simpson Hill" on the little Sanders Creek.

    Therefore, on April 24, 1800, the members met at the Church and constituted the Lookout Valley Primitive Baptist Church. Thomas Boydston acted as "agent" for the Services to be held at this old house.

    This Church was duly constituted by Elders and Deacons from Providence Primitive Baptist Church of Bledsoe County; Good Hope Primitive Baptist Church of Hamilton County; and Union Primitive Baptist Church of Marion County, Tennessee.

     In 1829 the members erected a new log house in which services were held until it was burned by soldiers during the Civil War. Lookout Valley is west of Chattanooga, and Cameron Hill. South of Signal Mountain; and north of Lookout Mountain. Thus, she stood in line with Civil War signals from Signal, Lookout, and Raccoon Mountains, as well as from Cameron Hill, across Moccasin Bend from the Church.

    On the low ridges just east of the Church, soldiers dug breast works that are still there. Thus, the little church was also on the Brown's Ferry Road that led into North Chattanooga from Wauhatchie and northern Georgia. Soldiers built a pontoon bridge at Brown's Ferry and also one across the Tennessee River near Cameron Hill, for the great Moccasin Bend makes its great loop just east of Lookout Valley Primitive Baptist Church.

    War skirmishes were held along the old roadway, as both Federal and Confederate soldiers tried to by-pass Lookout Mountain in order to get into Chattanooga and Chickamauga beyond. Therefore, several skirmishes were held in and around the church, and in these skirmishes, the church was burned. Battle of Wauhatchie and skirmishes were Oct. 28-29, 1863, around the front of the church.

The only time services were not held at the Church, was at this critical period of the Civil War.

    On April 15, 1871, after church services had been held in the homes of the members, the membership decided to build another church house. Consequently, a member Cavenaugh Boydston, deeded a tract of land to the Lookout Valley Primitive Baptist Church. This deed was witnessed by David Tittle and J. M. Cox, both members of the Church.

    The new house was finished in 1877. It was constructed of logs that had been salvaged from logs of rafts that had been wrecked in the Tennessee River on William's Island. These logs, having been lashed together by 2-inch wooden pegs that had been driven through a "strap" to hold them were hewn by hand with broad axes and adz. The two-inch holes some two feet from each end of the logs that had held the raft together, were left in the logs. They were conservative, and dared not lose four feet of each log, so the holes remained. Some logs were split and hewn and then used to make the floor, and the two-inch holes remained. Pews were also made of the split logs, and then school was also held in the same building.

    As the holes were so predominate in the new structure, it became known locally as "The Auger Hole Church" or the "Auger Hole School."

    However, this old church erected in 1877 with its quaint fireplace, burned in 1909. The old fireplace had been "logged in" and a large wood heater installed, with the flue extending up and out of the roof. The fire that destroyed the building started in this flue while services were being held on Saturday afternoon. Elder H. L. Gholston was the pastor at that time.

    Everything was saved, and church services were held in a tenant house on the R. J. Massey farm until the new Church could be built.

Clearing away the rubble, the new house was finished in the fall of 1909. This house stood until it also was leveled from sparks from a brush fire in 1956.

Services were moved then to the home of Brother Mack Brown and wife until the new edifice was completed and dedicated on September 29, 1957.

It would be well to mention that most of the descendants of the members of this little Church have moved to other areas, and that the village of Tiftonia has grown until now the area in and about the little Church has many fine dwellings and has recently been annexed to the city of Chattanooga.

    The children and grandchildren and great grandchildren of the former members of the little Church, under the leadership of the late Elder L. L. Lewis, rebuilt the Church. They also had the help of many citizens of the community.

In 1869 Lookout Valley Primitive Baptist Church "extended an arm" to Aetna Mountain, near the village of Whiteside. Another to Bennett's Cove In Marion County in 1874. Another in 1877 to New Union in Marion County, and another to Moccasin Bend in 1895, and also an arm was extended to Kelly's Ferry in 1909.

    From these "arms" many new members were added to the Lookout Valley Primitive Baptist Church. Sister Churches during the early period were Suck Port, Stanley, New Hope, and New Union.

    In later years, the Church became a member of the Sequatchie Valley Association of Churches until about 1945. Since that time, the Church has not been affiliated with any association, but has diligently kept herself in fellowship with the brethren.

    At present "the little white Church at the top of the hill, down in the valley" has services each first and third Lord's Day, monthly at 10:30 a. m. Eastern Daylight Time.

    From about 1877 to 1914 some thirty persons were buried in the little cemetery just behind the church. A diligent search was made to determine their names, as only crude, un-carved stones had been set up to mark each grave.

    Inquiry and the search of records was of no avail, so the Church secured a suitable marker in 1973 for all who are buried there. It reads as follows:

DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE UNKNOWN WHO REST HERE AWAITING THE SECOND COMING OF OUR LORD

Lookout Valley Primitive Baptist Church

    In 1974 a suitable scroll was prepared and placed in the church. This scroll contains the names of all former and present members; the names of former and present ministers; and the names of former and present deacons.

    The Memorial Marker and the Scroll were unveiled by the great grandsons of two of the founding members of the little Church.

    As one looks back over the long history of this little church, such an one will find that she has come safely through many wars, lost her place of worship many times, and yet has come from a "slave house" to a beautiful structure. The founders used candles and torches, and an open fireplace with a "mud and stick" chimney, while today there are rest rooms, electric heat, glass windows, paved roads, and yet the same fellowship that warmed the hearts of those who constituted the little Church one hundred and seventy- five years ago, still warms the hearts of each worshipper.

    May our Lord bless those who may read these pages and instill in their hearts a desire to try to "keep house for the Lord" for another long, long period, or until our Lord returns.
Joyce Nell Beck Truitt 1996


LOOKOUT VALLEY PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH

St. Elmo, Tennessee

August 26, 1963

Dear Christian Friend:

Over 150 years ago the earliest settlers of the Valley planted a little church on a trail that led from Brown’s Ferry out of the Valley by way of Kelly’s Ferry. This little log house served as a “meeting place” and was cared for by a circuit-riding minister.

Pioneer life was hard, but the early citizens toiled and on the Lord’s Day they turned their stock to pasture; laid down their primitive tools and walked to the “Little Church” to worship God. Their worship was a simple, but impressive one, as they humbled themselves before God.

When the terrible Civil War came, services had to be discontinued, as the battle guns roared in the Valley; soldiers marched; and even used the Church house for protection from the cold winters, and to also worship God.  The hill tops in the Valley still bear the marks of the trenches to this day.  The blood of Federalist and Confederate soldiers was shed in the old church yard.

When the war ended, the former soldiers not only laid down their arms, for they also laid down any malice or hatred, and sat side by side in the Little Church to worship God.  Those stalwart men put the worship of God above everything else in the world.  What an example for us!

Mail routes, school buses, schools, roads, telephones, and churches are brought forth to fender service to people.   The old ferry boat is not used at Brown’s Ferry any longer, for residents of the valley found another way to get to town.  Because of this disuse, it was cut from its moorings and floated down the river to be forgotten!

Flood waters at Sander’s Creek near the church used to hinder folks who wanted to get to church.  They gave land for a new road on which you may now reside, that they might get to church and worship God.

Twice the church was destroyed by fire, and once by soldiers – but still in your day “the little church at the top of the hill” still stands and welcomes you and your family to come and worship.

The little church could have “been cut loose from her moorings” and let go to be forgotten.  Her members could have given up to floods; fire; and war – but they had stamina! They feared God, and desired to “show their faith by their works.”

So after all of the trials and tribulations, this little church invites you to come and worship at the hilltop where once the guns of battle roared and spilled the blood of her members.

We are not indebted to the church or the edifice – but we are indebted to the God who cared for her all these perilous years. The sincerity of her worship is yours to enjoy this coming Lord’s Day.  Try to come!

Lookout Valley Primitive Baptist Church     Elder Rufus J. Masse 

                                                                             

The Methodist Episcopal Church

The Methodist Episcopal Church was active in the county at an early date.  A church was organized at Dallas, then the county seat, and this church has a continuous record for more than a hundred years.

Service was first held in a small log cabin; this was succeeded by a more commodious log cabin which was later replaced by the present substantial structure.  The church was called “Jackson’s Chapel” in honor of an early trustee.  When the division of the Methodist denomination into branches, known as the Northern and Southern churches, occurred, Jackson’s Chapel went with the South and it is now Jackson’s Chapel, Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

George Sawyer gave a half-acre to the organization Oct. 31, 1831, and the present church stand on this half acre.  The trustees were Burwell Smith, Houston Hixon, John Bradfield and George Sawyer.  John Bradfield was pastor.

Asahel Rawlings followed the gift of church ground by presenting a quarter acre lot for a burying ground, which is called Jackson’s Cemetery.  The Dallas Road runs between the church and the cemetery.  Asahel Jackson (a nephew of Asahel Rawlings), George Sawyer and John Bradfield, were trustees for both properties for many years.

Elisha Kirklin increased the holdings of the church by giving a five-acre tract on North Chickamauga Creek, for a camp meeting ground in 1848.  The trustees for the campground were George Sawyer, John Bradfield, Ephraim Hixon, and Houston Hixon.

Col. James A Whitside, who may be called the godfather of church organizations in Chattanooga and Hamilton County, presented a lot in 1848 to the Methodist Episcopal Church South.  The lot included two and a half acres.  The trustees were Henry Rogers, Preston Gann, and Asahel Jackson.

(Source: History of Hamilton County Churches, page 239)


Mt. Vernon Baptist Church

Located in Northeastern Catoosa County, Georgia

 Copyright by J.W. Henson 1997

Mt. Vernon Baptist Church was organized in 1895 with 18 charter members.  The church was originally known as “The Baptist Church of Christ at Mt. Vernon".  Prior to 1895 a non-denominational group was worshiping in the Liberty Hill School House, and from there the church was organized.  In December 1936 the church burned, and a new building was begun within three months.  Standing trees were donated by the members for the purpose of building.  In 1949 the building was raised, and a basement added for Sunday School classes.  1956 saw the completion of a six-room pastorium next to the church, and around 1960 the sanctuary was remodeled.  The first section of the education building was completed in 1970 under the direction of Pastor E. Don Laird.  During the pastorate of Tom Crews the second sanctuary was built, the second part of the educational building was erected, and the parking lot paved.

Pastors of the church with the year they came to the pulpit: From 1895 to 1902 Isaac Watkins, and John London; G.J. Lewis 1902; W.E. Dawn 1903; W.C. Tallant 1904; W.B. Watkins 1908; J.T. Nichols 1912; W.J. Darnell 1914; J.W. Curtis 1920; H.A. Winstead 1922; Rev. Wilhoit 1929; I.W. Smith 1930; J.D. Bethune 1932; W.H. Stewart 1932; Cecil Clonts 1933; Rev. Huffaker 1936; W.H. Stewart 1938; Jake Barton 1939; A.M. Thomas 1942; M.F. Caldwell 1945; Ben Dawn 1949; Duane Highlander 1951; Claude Thomas 1953; James Brock 1956; J.B. Keith 1959; Clay Boss 1963; C.E. Reese 1964; E. Don Laird 1969; Jack Price 1971; Tom Crews 1972; E. Don Laird 1987 to present (1997).

Submitted by John W. Henson III  henson3@chattanooga.net


Prairie Springs Meeting House / Jackson’s Chapel

The earliest Methodist church, first known as Prairie Springs Meeting House, was a log structure on Prairie Creek near Dallas.  Asabel and Phoebe Thurman Rawlings moved to this section from Washington about 1820 when he became clerk of the court.  Tradition has it that Rawlings was instrumental in founding this church about this time, although the deed for the donated property was not recorded until 1832.  John Bradfield, easily recognized by the great shawl he always wore instead of a coat, served as an early minister; later a nephew of Asabel Rawlings named Asabel Jackson became minister, and the church’s name was changed to Jackson’s Chapel.  The original name now survives only in the designation of Prairie Peninsula, where the old cemetery is located across the road from where the old chapel stood.

The property of the church was increased by five acres donated by Elisha Kirklin for a camp meeting site on North Chickamauga Creek.

(Source: History of Hamilton Co, Tn. Page 55)


Salem Baptist Church

Member of the Catoosa Baptist Association

Located in Northeastern Catoosa County, Georgia

Copyright by J.W. Henson 1997

The young Salem “Peace” Church’s History points back to 1840 when a group of believers were meeting in the home of Brittian Williams who owned the property where the present Church now stands in northeast Catoosa County.  Official organization was recorded in 1847, and in 1852 two Shaw brothers started erecting a church, finishing it the next year.  On March 11, 1854, Brittian Williams deeded the land to the Church.  He pastored the Church until the Civil War started in 1861.  During the war and reconstruction era it is unknown if the congregation was active, as there are no records for that period.  Record keeping resumed in 1880.  At this time the Church met every fourth Saturday afternoon for business meetings, and a regular monthly preaching every fourth Sunday.  School was held in the Church until a two roomed schoolhouse was built to the north of and adjacent to the Church.  The original building was torn down in 1905 and a larger church built.

Enlargements and renovations occurred regularly.  In 1925 wings were added the either side of the building.  Electricity was first used on August 9, 1936.  In 1948 a basement was dug for a heating system.  Three classrooms were added to the back lower level in 1951.  Above this a choir loft with a classroom one either side was added.  On the front an open vestibule was erected.  The pulpit and mourner’s bench were made by Rev. Edward Wittler.   Additional cemetery space was purchased in 1954.  1957 brought renovation to the interior of the Church along with stained glass windows.  A Hammond organ was installed in 1963, and four years later a Hammond piano purchased.  A pastorium was started in 1968, and dedicated at 2:30 pm May 4, 1969, siding, and in July of that year Mr. and Ms. George Watts donated the Ronald Watts Memorial Building in memory of their son.  It was built adjacent to the south side of the Church.

A list of the pastors with the approximate year that they came to the Salem Church follows:  Brittian Williams pre-Civil War; William Haddock 1882; Huffaker 1884; Martin Clonts 1885; Parrot 1887; Henry Neal 1889; Tom Hardin 1890; W.H. Boyd 1897.

William McNabb 1900; J.M. Cash 1903; J.H. Blaylock 1903; W.E. Davis 1904: W.C. Tallant 1905: Dan Quinn 1907: W.C. Tallant 1907: W.B. Watkms 1908: J.B Fuller 1911: A.M. Stancel 1914: W.J. Darnell 1915; H.A. Winstead 1917; J. Pruette 1920: E.C. Harris 1921; J.N. Padgett 1923: W.C. Howard 1925; S.W. Lord 1926; S.R. Stansbury 1928; W.C. Tallant 1929; A.F. Smith 1930: S.W. Lord 1931; Hiram Ward 1933; Cecil Clonts 1934; J.L. Marlow 1938; P.S. Woody 1939; A.M. Thomas 1941; Frank Harper 1943: F.A. Nelms 1947; Edward Wittier 1952; Carl Gilreath 1953; George Godfrey 1956; R.W. Nicholson 1957; Reece Knight 1959; L.A. Lowery 1961; Ramon Clark 1964; B.C. Bowman 1968; J.R. Kilgore 1969; Willie Kinsey 1971; John Smith 1973; Ray Warren 1974; Steve Tingle 1979: Ruel Fincher 1985; Michael Deems 1986; C.E. Blevins 1989; John Parker 1990; Herman Kapherr 1996. Dates are unknown for these pastors: John London, Charles London, Press Longley, and A.L. Stulce.

Submitted by John W. Henson III  henson3@chattanooga.net
 

St. Elmo Presbyterian Church


On August 31, 1889, St. Elmo Presbyterian Church was organized with 33 members as a mission church of the First Presbyterian Church of Chattanooga. The organizing pastor was Dr. Robert W. Carter. Dr. Jonathan Bachman preached the first sermon and Rev. T.H. McCallie presided over the first communion service and the installation of officers on September 1, 1889. On April 7, 1889, the Chattanooga Times reported that "a large force of hands" was at work constructing "one of the fanciest church edifices in the Chattanooga area." The architecture demonstrates decorative elements borrowed from the Queen Anne and Eastlake styles and is considered the "most outstanding Eastlake building in Chattanooga" (from the nomination form for the National Register of Historic Places - St. Elmo Historic District). Architectural elements of note include the irregular asymmetrical appearance, gabled roof with finials and elaborate and varied exterior wood trim treatments with surface ornamentation. In 1997 the church received from Cornerstones, Inc. a preservation award for its work toward preserving this important building.
 

St. Elmo Churches (Old)

Baptist, Missionary St. Elmo Church, 1866--. 4500 St. Elmo Avenue. Members and Deaths, 2 vols., in custody of Alonzo P Stephenson, Clerk, 4303 Michigan Avenue. Register: (1926--.)

South St. Elmo Church, 1934--. Fifty-sixth Street and Tennessee Avenue. Baptisms, Members, and Deaths (in Church Minutes, 1934--, 1 vol.) in custody of William Cant, Clerk, 5610 Tennessee Avenue. Register: (1934--.)

Baptist, Missionary (Col.)St. Elmo Church, 1890--. 810 West Thirty-seventh Street. Baptisms, Members, and Deaths (in Church Minutes, 1936--, 3 vols.) in custody of Haywood White, 1712 East Third Street. Register: (1936--.)

St. James Church, 1932--. 130 West Forty-fifth Street. Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths (in Church Minutes, 1935--, 3 vols.) in custody of Rev. John Henry Sparks, 56 West Twenty-fourth Street. Register: (1935--.)

Baptist, Primitive (Col.)St. Cephas Church, 1918--. 3411 George Street. Baptisms, Marriages, Members, and Deaths (in Church Minutes, 1927-31, 1935--, 3 vols.) in custody of Rev. E D Thomas, 2436 Fort Street. Register: (1927-31, 1935--.)

Church of Christ St. Elmo Church, 1913--. Forty-eighth Street and St. Elmo Avenue. Members, 1 file box, in custody of Elder D D Woody, 4711 St. Elmo Avenue. Register: (1923--.)

Methodist St. Elmo Church, 1883--. 4624 St. Elmo Avenue. Baptisms, Members, and Deaths, 1 vol., in custody of Mrs. Lundy E Beatey, 4310 St. Elmo Avenue. Register: (1921--.)

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Patten Memorial Church, 1886--. 3817 Church Street. Baptisms, Members, and Deaths (in Church Minutes, 1923--, 3 vols.) in custody of Rev. J S Davenport, 1726 West Thirty-ninth Street. Register: (1923--.)

Presbyterian, US Brick Store Mission, 1930--. 3405 St. Elmo Avenue. Baptisms and Members, 1 vol., in custody of Miss Mildred Collins, Secretary, Lookout Mountain Church, 3405 St. Elmo Avenue. Register: (1930--.)

St. Elmo Church, 1889--. 4400 St. Elmo Avenue. Members and Deaths, 3 vols., in custody of Arthur J Hitchcock, Clerk, 4612 Florida Avenue. Register: (1904--.)

Protestant Episcopal Thankful Memorial Church, 1905--. Alabama Avenue and Thankful Place. Baptisms, Marriages, Members, and Deaths, 1 vol., in custody of Rev. Thomas P Simpson, 1607 West Forty-third Street. Register: (1905--.)  

Saints Peter and Paul Basilica 

     A historic Roman Catholic church at 214 E. 8th Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is one of the oldest continuing parishes in the Diocese of Knoxville.

Saints Peter and Paul Parish in Chattanooga was founded in January 1852. The small but growing Catholic community in Chattanooga would conduct Mass in numerous buildings through the parish's early years. One former building included a nearly completed stone church demolished by the occupying Union Army during the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863. The Army of the Cumberland under the command of Major General William Rosecrans used the stone from the church to construct fortifications and culverts in support of the Union Army. Under the leadership of Father William Walsh, an Irish priest, ground was broken on the current site on February 1, 1888. The current building was dedicated June 29, 1890. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 as Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church and Buildings.

Stained-glass windows in the basilica, designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, depict significant events in the lives of the parish's patron saints. The life of Saint Peter is depicted in the east side windows and the life of Saint Paul in the west side. The basilica's walls are also adorned with 14 polychrome Stations of the Cross, whose scenes depict the suffering, death, and burial of Jesus Christ The Kilgen organ in the church was built in 1936.

Saints Peter and Paul was raised to a minor basilica by Pope Benedict XVI and inaugurated by Bishop Richard Stika of the Diocese of Knoxville on October 22, 2011.[3] Monsignor George E. Schmidt, Jr., who became the pastor in 1986, is among more than 30 sons of the parish that have gone onto the priesthood.


 Thankful Memorial Episcopal Church

Thankful Memorial Episcopal Church owes much of its existence to Colonel A. M. Johnson who was born in Gainesville, Georgia in 1830. Johnson came to Chattanooga in 1851 where he went into the tanning business with his brother-in-law, John Bryson. Later, he was given a position as a post office agent on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad line. Around this time, he met Thankful Anderson Whiteside, the daughter of Colonel James A. Whiteside one of the founders and leading citizens of early Chattanooga. Not long after their marriage, Col. Johnson became the superintendent of the Will Valley Railroad. During the Civil War, he operated several railroads in Georgia, serving under the Confederate government with the rank of colonel. When the war was over, the Johnson’s returned to Chattanooga to find their home and belongings had been destroyed. Col. Johnson became president of Lookout Savings and with three others bought the City Water Co. (what is now the Tennessee American Water Co.), which was built by Union soldiers. Johnson spent the next seventeen years supervising the construction of the Chattanooga water system.

The outbreak of yellow fever in 1878 caused a panic that sent Chattanooga residents fleeing to the hills and mountains to avoid the disease. Seeing this demand for mountain homes and property, in 1886 Col. Johnson began subdividing lots on the “East side” farm that his wife had inherited from her parents on the eastern slope on the foot of Lookout Mountain. Overlooking the community, the Johnson’s built their home, known as “The House”, located on two city blocks at the site where Daniel Ross had lived. Johnson named the community St. Elmo after a novel of that name by Augusta Evans, a personal friend of Col. Johnson’s wife. Ms. Evans said the view of the new community from Lookout Mountain reminded her of the view of St. Elmo castle in Naples.

St. Elmo had two advantages over the other new suburbs being developed, Johnson installed a water main to provide city water and there was an electric trolley car that connected St. Elmo with Chattanooga. By 1887, the Episcopalians who lived in St. Elmo attended St. Paul’s Church in Chattanooga, but it was a long, slow journey even with the available trolley. Thankful Everett, granddaughter of Thankful Johnson recalled, “in the 1890’s, the streetcar and the family horse and carriage were the only means of transportation from St. Elmo to Chattanooga. So attending church was not a simple matter as it took time to make the trip.

Thankful Everett asked St. Paul’s for permission to start a children’s Sunday School in St. Elmo because many mothers feared their children were not being properly exposed to the practices and beliefs of the Episcopal Church. A preliminary meeting at the Johnson house in 1892 led to the first meeting of The Guild of St. Elmo Sunday School on October 29, 1893, in the brick music hall at the corner of St. Elmo Avenue and 45th Street (the current location of St. Elmo Avenue Baptist Church). W.H. Wilson served as the first superintendent while Col. Johnson served as the first secretary. By 1895, eighteen women taught Sunday classes there. Members of the Guild and their husbands financially supported the school until it became a mission in 1898 when the Rev. Thomas Gailor sent Rev. William G. Robertson from Sewanee to conduct services. In 1899, Mr. Francis Lynde, became the first lay reader of the Episcopal Mission and conducted services along with Rev. Goodman from St. Paul’s Church. Under their direction, the Mission became a “semi dependent congregation entirely self-supporting”.

When Col. Johnson died in 1903, he left the property across the street from his home to be used for an Episcopal Church to be named in memory of his wife, Thankful Anderson Whiteside Johnson who had died in 1890. So, in 1904, the Episcopal Mission ended with the construction of Thankful Memorial Episcopal Church, a church built of native stone in Gothic revival style and filled with several stained-glass windows from the Johnson home.

Groundbreaking was held in February 1904, with much of the money for building the church provided through the will of A. M. Johnson. The church bell had been originally given to St. Paul’s in 1870. When “chimes” were presented to St. Paul's in 1911, the old bell was loaned “in perpetuity” to Thankful Memorial, and still rings to this day.


 

Wiley Memorial United Methodist Church, now known as Bethlehem Wiley United Methodist Church, is a historic church at 504 Lookout Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee, affiliated with the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church.

The church's site was an important community center in the early years of Ross's Landing, before it came to be called Chattanooga. During the American Civil War, an earlier church building on the site was used as a military hospital and prison by the Confederate Army and later as a Union Army military prison. The building incurred major damage during the 1863 Battle of Chattanooga. In 1867 it was purchased for use by the first African Methodist Episcopal congregation in East Tennessee.

The church's current brick building, completed in 1886–1887, replaced a building that was destroyed by arson. It was rebuilt though the cooperative efforts of the congregation's members.

The city declared the building unsafe for occupancy in 1978. Money was raised to restore the historic building. Following restoration, which included installation of a new roof, sandblasting the exterior, and uncovering some of the interior woodwork, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places. After the 1979 National Register listing, city officials allowed the congregation to resume its use of the church for worship.


 Wauhatchie United Methodist Church 

The Wauhatchie United Methodist Church today is in its sixth sanctuary since 1812 and is named in honor of Chief Wauhatchie. Bob Hicks started the church prior to the “War of 1812,” off of Kelley’s Ferry Road, in an old log cabin, at the foot of Grinde Stone Mountain now called Raccoon Mountain. The first pastor of the church had to walk a trail along Aetna Mountain (Old Aetna Mountain Road) to give the sermon. When the cabin burned down the congregation moved to the farm of Larkin O’Barr. During the Battle of Wauhatchie the church was used as a hospital. At the end of the Civil War the congregation moved across Lookout Valley to Wauhatchie Pike to a log house adjacent to Rowden Springs on land donated by John Cummings. In 1945, the church was condemned because it was considered being unsafe to worship in. 1946 twenty-five members began working on a new sanctuary on the present site of the church. The first church service was held on December 14, 1947, and the church was dedicated on October 30, 1949, by Bishop Paul Kern, who was on the President Council of Bishops of the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church. When the Congregation grew to over 363 members in the 1960s a second church building was started. The second building in its present location was completed in three phases. The first phase was completed in 1966 and consisted of a fellowship hall, kitchen, and classrooms. The second phase of the building was finished in the early 1970s with additional classrooms and a pastor study. The final phase was completed with a new sanctuary and a church office completed on November 27, 1977. 

Old Church that was found on Wauhatchie Pike closed in 1940 due to building was considered unsafe. Building was also used as a school till it was closed.

Submitted by Alex McKeel  richardamckeel@bellsouth.net


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