Portsmouth's African Methodist Episcopal Church (Allen Chapel) at Twelfth and Waller Streets

ID: 464 ~ Source: Scioto Historical Series, private collection, Friendship, Ohio. ~ Creator: Andrew Feight ~ Date: 2019

This file appears in: Portsmouth's African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Underground Railroad

Portsmouth's African Methodist Episcopal Church (Allen Chapel) at Twelfth and Waller Streets — © Andrew Feight (2019)

Home to Portsmouth's oldest African American religious society and the third oldest AME Church west of the Appalachian Mountains, Allen Chapel was built in 1920 at the northwest corner of Twelfth and Waller Streets.

This file appears in: Portsmouth's African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Underground Railroad

Portsmouth's African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Underground Railroad

By Andrew Feight, Ph.D.

Portsmouth's African Methodist Episcopal Church (Allen Chapel - AME) is the city's oldest Black religious society. In March 1837, "Father Charleston" organizd the church in the "Old Wheeler Academy," which was located on the southwest corner of…