Freetown Church

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This photograph shows Freetown Church, later known as the Mount Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church. Courtesy of the National Park Service-National Register of Historic Places.

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By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #1347 commemorates Freetown Church, which is located near Gamaliel, Kentucky, in Monroe County. The church was built in the late 1840s by three former slaves who had been freed by…