Dancyville United Methodist Church and Cemetery

Historic church in Tennessee, United States

United States historic place


Dancyville United Methodist Church and Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district


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Location	Dancyville Methodist Church St., Dancyville, Tennessee
Coordinates	35°24′19″N 89°17′43″W / 35.40528°N 89.29528°W / 35.40528; -89.29528
Area	3.9 acres (1.6 ha)
Built	1850
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	91000224
Added to NRHP	March 13, 1991

Dancyville United Methodist Church is a historic church in the Dancyville community in Haywood County, Tennessee. The church and its cemetery were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The church survives as the oldest United Methodist Church in West Tennessee.

The church property was deeded to the Methodist Church on April 1, 1835. Two years later, in 1837, the congregation was organized and a log church building was built on the property. The current building was completed in 1850, replacing the log church. It is a wood frame building in a Greek Revival design, built from trees growing on the church grounds; the lumber was hewn and sawed by hand. In the early 1950's basement was built to house a modern kitchen, bathrooms, an assembly room, and Sunday school rooms. The adjoining cemetery dates to 1830. It is one of only a few extant antebellum churches in rural west Tennessee.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ History of Haywood County. Brownsville-Haywood County Historical Society. 1989.
^ "The Dancyville United Methodist Church". Dancyville.net. Archived from the original on March 15, 2013. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
Manning, Russ (2002). Scenic Driving Tennessee. Globe Pequot. p. 322. ISBN 9780762711383.

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