Dancyville United Methodist Church and Cemetery

Dancyville United Methodist Church and Cemetery
Dancyville United Methodist Church and Cemetery is located in Tennessee
Dancyville United Methodist Church and Cemetery
Location within Tennessee
Dancyville United Methodist Church and Cemetery is located in the United States
Dancyville United Methodist Church and Cemetery
Location within the United States
LocationDancyville Methodist Church St., Dancyville, Tennessee
Coordinates35°24′19″N 89°17′43″W / 35.40528°N 89.29528°W / 35.40528; -89.29528
Area3.9 acres (1.6 ha)
Built1850
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No.91000224[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 13, 1991

Dancyville United Methodist Church is a historic church in the Dancyville community in Haywood County, Tennessee. The church and its cemetery were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[1] The church survived as the oldest United Methodist Church in West Tennessee[2] until its closure by the Tennessee-Western Kentucky Annual Conference in May 2023.[3]

The church property was deeded to the Methodist Church on April 1, 1835. Two years later, in 1837, the congregation was organized and a log church building was built on the property.[4] The current building was completed in 1850, replacing the log church. It is a wood frame building in a Greek Revival design, built from trees growing on the church grounds; the lumber was hewn and sawed by hand.[4][5] In the early 1950s'a basement was built to house a modern kitchen, bathrooms, an assembly room, and Sunday school rooms. The adjoining cemetery dates to 1830.[2] It is one of only a few extant antebellum churches in rural west Tennessee.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. 1 2 History of Haywood County. Brownsville-Haywood County Historical Society. 1989.
  3. ↑ "Church Profile". UMData. Retrieved April 21, 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 "The Dancyville United Methodist Church". Dancyville.net. Archived from the original on March 15, 2013. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
  5. ↑ Manning, Russ (2002). Scenic Driving Tennessee. Globe Pequot. p. 322. ISBN 9780762711383.


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