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Farming For A Better Future, page 300
(Top) Excerpt from the 1920 U.S. Census Showing the Households of Please Orr, Sr. and Lindsey Fields (Above) Excerpt from the 1940 U.S. Census Showing the Household of Elijah Pryor
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Oakland United Methodist Church and School*
War. In late 1879, the church members bought land and put up a one-room frame building. Worship
services and classes for children of color were held here. In 1929, the county board of education took over the school and continued its oversight
until it was closed in 1952. The original church
According to a State Historical Commission marker
building was destroyed by a tornado in the 1970s.
in front of it, Oakland United Methodist Church has its beginnings before the Civil
The present-day church is modern and was
renovated in the 1990s. - (4828)