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South Pittsburg, TN
Holly Avenue United Methodist Church
415 Holly Avenue
South Pittsburg, TN
423-837-6821
Like most of
South Pittsburg’s early congregations, Holly Avenue met first in a local schoolhouse, but quickly grew in numbers and required a church building of its own. In 1879 the Holston Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South named John Wesley Smith pastor of South Pittsburg and Jasper. He was charged with the task of organizing a parish and building a church in the burgeoning town of
South Pittsburg
. One year later the parish dedicated its first church building. “The little white church” served the parish until 1930 when it broke ground on a new sanctuary. The new sanctuary was first occupied in the winter of 1932 and serves the parish today. Many of the pews in the current church building were originally used in the wooden “little white church” structure.
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