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Prospect AME Cemetery

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Location	:	Georgetown, Sussex County, USA
Description	:	From the Historic Marker: The roots of African-American Methodism in this community can be traced to the organization of an African-American "class" within the local Methodist society in the 1790s. By the 1830s a group of residents had affiliated themselves with Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church. On November 13, 1839, trustees Moses Robinson, Timothy Jacobs, Curtis Jacobs, George Ratcliff, and Isaac Waples, purchased land for the construction of a church and establishment of a cemetery. The original structure was replaced by the present church circa 1867. For many years Prospect A.M.E. was the site of one of the... Read More	From the Historic Marker: The roots of African-American Methodism in this community can be traced to the organization of an African-American "class" within the local Methodist society in the 1790s. By the 1830s a group of residents had affiliated themselves with Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church. On November 13, 1839, trustees Moses Robinson, Timothy Jacobs, Curtis Jacobs, George Ratcliff, and Isaac Waples, purchased land for the construction of a church and establishment of a cemetery. The original structure was replaced by the present church circa 1867. For many years Prospect A.M.E. was the site of one of the few schools for African-American youth in Sussex County.

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