OUR HISTORY
STILL STANDING! this 145 year old Historic Landmark - these Cornerstones mark the spot!
STILL STANDING! this 145 year old Historic Landmark - these Cornerstones mark the spot!
STILL STANDING! this 145 year old Historic Landmark - these Cornerstones mark the spot!
Originally established as a "hay barn" and named - The Colored Church in 1817 by black people who traveled across the Delaware River from Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey to Historic Yardley Borough, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
In 1958 A.M.E. Church Members on South Canal Street, Yardley pa. -they Gathered Here!
STILL STANDING! this 145 year old Historic Landmark - these Cornerstones mark the spot!
STILL STANDING! this 145 year old Historic Landmark - these Cornerstones mark the spot!
In 1877 renamed/founded as The African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E) Church. Built in the simple Victorian board and batten style.
The old A.M.E church photo (c. 1980s)
From the Bucks County Conservancy, part of the Heritage application filed by one of the last remaining church members from that time, the late Mrs. Helene Derry Giles.. Many African Americans from this little known neighborhood of Yardley Borough's Historic District, actively worshiped here until about the late 1980s. This historic landmark is now managed by and the home of Gather Place, a non-profit organization formed in July of 2022, by Bucks County Court appointed conservator, Shirley Lee Corsey