Mulberry A.M.E. Church

Mulberry A.M.E. Church was formally organized about 1871, but many of its founding members were formerly enslaved people whose tradition of religious organization stretched back into slavery. Early meetings were held under a brush arbor, and by 1872 members had built a log building. A second frame church was built in 1878 and remained until it burned in 1918. The current Carpenter Gothic church, with offset steeple and church bell, dates to 1919. A cemetery across the road from the church was established about 1904. The one-teacher Mulberry School was once located here and served African American students until it closed in the early 1950s. Mulberry is the mother church to St. Peter, Shady Grove, and St. Paul A.M.E. churches in Abbeville.

South Carolina · United States