This year, St. Philip’s A.M.E Zion Church on the corner of North Mill and Burd Streets celebrates 160 years of worship. The church was founded in 1859, two years before Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as president, by abolitionist John W Towt. In the 1850’s, as slave catchers roamed the north empowered by the loathsome Fugitive […]
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