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Henry's Chapel
Old
Washington, Hempstead County, Arkansas
First Methodist Episcopal Church in Southwest, Ark.
Organized 1817 at Mound Prairie by William Stephenson of the
Missouri Conference.
Moved nearer, rebuilt, & called Henrys Chapel
in honor of Rev. John Henry, one of founders. Rev. B.E. Mullins-
Pastor Washington Circuit 1917.
Rev. A.D. Jenkins, grandson of James & Hannah Alexander, charter
members.
First House of Worship built in 1818 about 3 miles south of Ozan
and called Mount Moriah.
This directional marker, to find Henry's Chapel, was
originally placed on the site of the Ozan Methodist Episcopal
Church South in 1917, by the Little Rock Annual Conference, and
was moved to this location in 1990 when that property was sold.
The original site of Henry's Chapel is approximately 3 miles
northwest of this marker (in the southwest corner of section 12,
township 11 south, range 25).
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