Auburn United Methodist Church Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two series. The first series, Auburn United Methodist Churc records and Momorabilia, includes: Pamphlets, brochures, Sunday School Records, information about the Wesley Center, financial papers, and other miscellaneous documents and memorabilia from throughout the church's history. The second series, Women's Groups, contains records documenting the activities, finances and membership of women's organizations at AUMC.
Dates
- 1850s-1989
Conditions Governing Access
Open
Biographical / Historical
In 1836, Judge John Harper and Methodist Reverend Morgan Turrentine led a small group of settlers to settle the area that is now downtown Auburn. The first church was built around tht time, and the first chapel was built shortly therefter in 1850. Since then, numerous expansions and new buildings have been built surrounding the site of the original chapel. As Auburn has grown in size, so has the church; currently it boasts over 3,000 members.
Extent
3 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Separated Materials
In 1986 8 photographs related to the Auburn methodist church were separated and added to the Self-Indexing photograph collection: Auburn, City of: Religion and Churches: First Methodist.
- Title
- Guide to the Auburn United Methodist Church Collection
- Author
- Processed by: BFS, Jimmie G. Purvis, Michael Morris, Jaime Kicklighter Digitized by: Noah Biblis
- Date
- 03/22/1983; 05/04/1988; 03/28/1991; 09/1991; 12/01/1992; 03/18/2016
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Auburn University Special Collections and Archives Repository
Auburn University
Ralph Brown Draughon Library
231 Mell Street
Auburn Alabama 36849
334-844-1732
archives@auburn.edu
