Baptisms
This file appears in: African American Churches in Jeffersonville, Indiana
Located on the Ohio River in view of downtown Louisville, Jeffersonville provided easy access to water for denominations that required baptism in a living spring. In the late 19th century, for both Black and White churches, accounts of revivals and subsequent baptism in the Ohio River frequently appeared in the local paper.
This file appears in: African American Churches in Jeffersonville, Indiana
African American Churches in Jeffersonville, Indiana
Before you, stands one of Clark County’s historic African American churches, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal. In the 19th Century, numerous African American churches were established to serve the spiritual needs of people fleeing the South in…