Churches, Maysville, Kentucky

left, The Methodist Episcopal Church, South
right, The Methodist Episcopal Church

Harvesting Home Decorations at the First
Methodist Episcopal Church in Maysville, 1905

"'The Mother of Churches,' historic Taylor Methodist Church, founded 14o years ago, will be dissolved
August 23, 1942, and the present 109 year old church will be abandoned. . . .The church is in the district
where the proposed floodwall is to be erected." Louisville Courier-Journal, July 24, 1942.

Protestant Episcopal Church and Rectory, Maysville
The Oldest Church Building in Maysville with a continuous congregation

Christian Church, Maysville
left,1947
The kids in the card on the left are identified here.

Maysville Christian Church
from A History of the Christian Church, Maysville,
Kentucky by Braden and Runyon, 1948

left, First Baptist Church, Maysville, 1928
right, First Baptist Church, Maysville, c. 1950

“Two of our most highly respectable ladies, visited the Baptist church (white) last Sunday, and occupied one of the back seats. They had been seated only a few minutes when the sexton, who by the way was colored, was ordered to tell them they would have to vacate, which they did. Now the dirtiest “poor white trash” in Maysville, smelling as they do, of the grease and dirt of the cotton factory, can occupy pews right up under the noses of the “white folks,” and they grin and bear it; but when educated, refined and cleanly dressed colored people dare to occupy a back pew, they are very soon hoisted out; but this is the first offense of its kind, to which our people have been subjected to, and causes not a little comment.” From Indianapolis’ The Freeman, An Illustrated Colored Newspaper, May 2, 1891.

left, First Presbyterian Church, Maysville
right, Central Presbyterian Church, Maysville