Venango County - Sites
Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church
The church was organized in 1865 at the house of James Wilson by Reverend James Henry with twenty-five members. His successors as pastor have served in the following order: Francis F. Lyons, Richard Foreman, John Fiddler, John Givens, Jenkins Williams, John Trimble, John Baptist, John E. Little, N.H. Williams. The frame church building on Fourteenth Street between New and Chestnut was built in 1865. A flourishing Sunday school is conducted here.