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Goal, in Walnut Street, Philadelphia
- Related Story
- Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Street Address
- S 6th St & Lombard St
- Creator Name
- W. Birch & Son
- Date Created
- 1800
- Description
- Richard Allen's Bethel A.M.E. Church being moved, with Walnut Street Jail in background, ca. 1794. Mother Bethel Church began in a blacksmith's shop, which Allen purchased and moved to a lot on Sixth Street in Cedar Ward, a black neighborhood.
- Contributing Institution
- Library Company of Philadelphia
- Collection
- Library Company of Philadelphia: (LCP Ap.800 B 617. Plate 24.)
- Source (Bibliographic)
- "The City of Philadelphia : in the State of Pennsylvania North America : as it appeared in the year 1800 consisting of twenty eight plates" / drawn and engraved by W. Birch & Son.
- Tags
- Churches (buildings), Horses, Jails, Men (male humans), Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Topics
- Civic Life & Politics, Landscape & Architecture
- Purchase This Image
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