Clinton AME Zion Church

Clinton AME Zion Church

Clinton AME Zion Church, August 2012
Location Johnson and Church Sts., Kershaw, South Carolina
Coordinates 34°32′57″N 80°35′14″W / 34.54917°N 80.58722°W / 34.54917; -80.58722Coordinates: 34°32′57″N 80°35′14″W / 34.54917°N 80.58722°W / 34.54917; -80.58722
Area less than one acre
Built 1909
Architectural style Gothic
MPS Lancaster County MPS
NRHP Reference # 90000092[1]
Added to NRHP February 16, 1990

Clinton AME Zion Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at Johnson and Church Streets in Kershaw, Lancaster County, South Carolina. It was built in 1909, and is a one-story, T-shaped, Gothic Revival style frame structure covered with clapboard siding and has a brick pier foundation with concrete block infill. It was the first separate black church established in Kershaw in the early-20th century.[2][3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Power, J. Tracy; Frank Brown, III (October 12, 1989). "Clinton Zion A.M.E. Church" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
  3. "Clinton Zion A.M.E. Church, Lancaster County (Johnson St., Kershaw)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 22 July 2012.


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