Mt. Gilead Methodist Church
This file appears in: Site of 1792 Church
There is nothing left of the 1792 church on its former location. However, there are some visible graves, and a monument to the beginnings of Methodism in Bourbon County was erected by the Paris Methodist Church at the historic site. Courtesy of Hopewell Museum.
This file appears in: Site of 1792 Church
Site of 1792 Church
Historical Marker #753 in Bourbon County marks the site of Mt. Gilead Methodist Meeting House, which was founded in 1792.
The founder of Mt. Gilead, Caleb Jarvis Taylor, was born in Maryland in 1763, into the Roman Catholic faith. He left home…