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Scarritt Bennett Campus

Strothers Meeting House
Style: Frontier/ Early Settlement
Built: c. 1800

 

Strothers Meeting House in Sumner County held the first conference of the Methodist Church in Middle Tennessee in October of 1802. This small log cabin has often been referred to as the "Traveling Church" because it has been dismantled and moved numerous times. Its history also includes a seventy-year stint as a corn crib. The church was moved to an honored place on the Scarritt Bennett Campus in 1931.

Source:

Mayme Hart Johnson, A Treasury of Tennessee Churches (Brentwood: J M Productions, Inc., 1986), p. 82.


 

 

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