Venango County - Sites
Brown's Chapel of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Brown's Chapel of the African Methodist Episcopal Church at Oil City was organized about 1865, and named after Reverend Morris Brown, the second bishop of that denomination. Reverend R.M. Green, Mrs. Charity Green, Charlotte Green, R.H. and Hannah Mann, Hannah Graham, and J.N. Mann, five of whom withdrew from Trinity Church, met in O’Harra’s opera house and were organized into a society by Reverend A.R. Green of Canada. After meeting some time in that building they leased Linden Hail, corner of Main and Center streets, and used it until the great fire, after which they at once erected their present frame church on Stout Street at a cost of three thousand dollars, and dedicated it in 1868.