African Methodist Meeting Places in Canandaigua

Excerpt from Preston E Pierce’s A Tour Guide to Black History Sites in Canandaigua, NY. Five times in the 19th Century, African Methodists tried to sustain congregations in Canandaigua. In 1832, they were meeting on Chapel Street, probably in the Methodist Chapel there. One congregation met here, for a while, in the former Saladin monument […]