Nicodemus A.M.E. Church

ID: 567
This file appears in: Stonetown
Nicodemus A.M.E. Church

This image shows the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Nicodemus, Kansas, which was built in 1885. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

This file appears in: Stonetown

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #2375 in Scott County notes the location of Stonetown, one of a number of Kentucky African American rural communities that formed in the years following the Civil War. When the Civil War ended, many of Kentucky’s freed slaves…