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Creation Date
5-6-2012
Building Name
First Methodist Church
Description
First Church Building Marker, Tampa, Fl.
First Methodist Church 1851 - 1891 , is located on Kennedy Blvd & Marion Street, Tampa, Florida.
The marker stands outside the church and reads as :
" Site of Tampa´s First Church Building and first frame ecclesiastical House of Worship erected in the area of all South Florida. Built by the Methodist congregation under the superintendence of the Rev. L. G. Lesley.
General T. J. "Stonewall" Jackson contributed $5 in gold to its building fund; and General O. O. Howard, head of the Freedmen´s Bureau, Founder of Howard College, Washington, D.C. was converted therein. "
Erected by the Hillsborough County Historical Commission
Latitude, Longitude
27.94862778, -82.45538611
Recommended Citation
Taylor, George Lansing Jr., "First Church Building Marker, Tampa, FL" (2012). George Lansing Taylor Collection Main Gallery. 3121.
https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/historical_architecture_main/3121
