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December 1, 2006 (West Chain of Rocks Rd. Madison: 11: Christian Hill Historic District: Christian Hill Historic District: May 22, 1978 (Roughly bounded by Broadway, Belle, 7th, Cliff, Bluff, and State Sts.
Built in 1912, the church was the third built for the Salem congregation, which formed in 1819. African-American stonemason Madison Banks and white contractor Samuel Marshall, both from Alton, built the church; they were assisted by two members of the congregation, John Walker and William Emery. The church served as a civic and social center ...
Tabernacle Community Hospital and Health Center (1972-1977), located at 5421 S. Morgan Avenue, was a short-lived, 175-bed hospital serving the African-American community of Chicago, Illinois. It was founded and run by Dr. Louis Rawls , pastor of the Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church, on the south side of Chicago, from 1941 until his death in ...
Alton (/ ˈ ɔː l t ən / AWL-tən) is a city on the Mississippi River in Madison County, Illinois, United States, about 18 miles (29 km) north of St. Louis, Missouri.The population was 25,676 at the 2020 census.
Since 2001, he has served as a pastor at the Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church in Alton. [3] In 2018, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. [3] See also.
He left in 1915 and took a post at First Baptist in Knoxville, Tennessee. [1] From 1923 to 1927, he was the pastor of First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida. Broughton returned to Tabernacle Baptist Church in Atlanta from 1929 to 1931. [8] He died in 1936 and was buried in Knoxville.
The primarily residential district includes portions of Alton's Middletown and Hunterstown neighborhoods and comprises 653 buildings, 613 of which are contributing buildings. [2] Settlement in the district dates to the original plat of Alton in 1817, which included the southern half of Middletown. Development in the district continued through ...
Tabernacle was founded in 1970 as a segregation academy. [1] Travis Case, the pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church, said, "... if any blacks show up at Tabernacle Baptist Academy, they will be turned away. It has nothing to do with race. We are not anti-Negro." [2] Tabernacle lost its tax-exempt status in 1970. [3]