Sam Black Church

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Sam Black Church
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Sam Black Church, November 2007
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Nearest city Smoot, West Virginia
Coordinates 37°53′55″N80°37′50″W / 37.89861°N 80.63056°W / 37.89861; -80.63056 Coordinates: 37°53′55″N80°37′50″W / 37.89861°N 80.63056°W / 37.89861; -80.63056
Built1901
Architectural styleGothic Revival
NRHP reference No. 99000288 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 5, 1999

Sam Black Church, known today as Sam Black United Methodist Church, [2] is an historic Carpenter Gothic-style church located at Sam Black Church near the unincorporated community of Smoot in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

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Sam Black Church, 2017

The historic white frame church was built in 1902 and named in honor of Reverend Sam Black, a circuit-riding Southern Methodist preacher who died in 1899. [3] It is a small one story building with a gable roof. It features a square, open bell tower with a hipped roof. It is located at the intersection of Interstate 64 and U.S. Route 60 on the Midland Trail, a National Scenic Byway. [4]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. County Convention & Visitors Bureau listing for Sam Black Church
  3. Powell, Bob. "July 13, 1899: Greenbrier Co. Methodist Preacher Sam Black Dies at 86". www.wvpublic.org. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  4. Katherine Jourdan (July 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Sam Black Church" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-08-02.