Standing on a small hill overlook the old Hwy. 321 between Newport and Parrottsville, Forest Hill Baptist Church dates to 1906 when thirty-one…
Allen’s Chapel Baptist Church stands in the Parrottsville community where it has served worshipers since 1884.
Dutch Bottoms Baptist Church, overlooking Douglas Lake alongside Hwy. 25-E, dates to 1920.
Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, located at 225 White Oak Avenue, in its beginning years was called Colored Baptist Church.
KNOXVILLE — The Holston Annual Conference met in a special called session Saturday at Central United Methodist Church in Knoxville. They worsh…
Methodism arrived early in Chestnut Hill, probably as an off-shoot of the earlier Pine Chapel Church, located near Swannsylvania.
On April 24, 1884, Deep Gap Baptist Church in Del Rio was organized in a building known as “Bible’s Chapel,” located a short distance from tod…
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Mulberry Gap United Methodist Church in Del Rio presented special programs “The L-E-T-T-E-R-S of Easter,” “Colors of the Cross,” “The Easter L…
While the quit claim deed for Basinger Chapel Missionary Baptist Church was issued in 1949, the church’s history stretches farther back in tim…
Shady Grove Baptist Church was organized Sept. 10, 1902 in a one-room schoolhouse located on the Elias Mantooth farm, a location farther up th…
Perhaps no other church in Cocke County had its beginning on the front porch of a residence, but Maple Grove Baptist Church traces its origins…
The parcel of land now the site of Cave Hill Missionary Baptist Church has been home to a religious edifice for over 150 years.
Shults Grove UMC, which stands just across the county line in Sevier County, takes its name from George Shults, who gave the land and furnishe…
Ebenezer Independent Missionary Baptist Church, located in the Old 15th District of Del Rio, takes its name from the Hebrew word which means “…
Newport Presbyterian Church, located off Hedrick Drive above Cocke County High School, is now in its third century of serving local parishioners.
Joseph Manning was still remembered and respected six years after his death when Manning’s Chapel Baptist Church was organized and named after him.
Nestled on the back roads of northeastern Cocke County since the late 1800s and in view of Meadow Creek Mountain, Browns Chapel Church has ser…
On March 21, 1967, a group of 24 Christians met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Crowe. After some discussion, they determined to begin a c…
Early records indicate that Baptist church services were held on the site of today’s Clay Creek Missionary Baptist Church in Bybee as early as…
Asbury Owens, his sister Hassie Owens, his son Audrey Owens, Evereux Roberts, and a Templin family of Allen’s Grove provided the leadership ne…
Organized in April of 1880, Piney Grove Baptist Church is located in Del Rio, on a hilltop about halfway between the communities of Midway and…
The Newport Church of the Nazarene will be holding a live auction March 25 to benefit both the Trail Life Troop 29:11 and American Heritage Gi…
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, located next to the Pigeon River in the Edwina community, was organized in May of 1838 in the log home of Willi…
On July 14, 1913, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Lovell gave land for the construction of Bybee Methodist Church, the lot being situated alongside Hwy. 16…
Does history repeat itself? The proverb “History repeats itself” is common. I have heard it many times, and you probably have as well. If a pe…
I have a lot of fun coming up with titles for these columnistic mis-masterpieces. Sometimes, they even make sense – and then – well, you know …
On May 23, 1943, a group of Christians in Newport began to meet as a congregation in the Cocke County courthouse. Earlier they had worshiped w…
We drink water. Douglas Lake is filled with it. It is part of milk, coffee, tea, everything we drink and every thing we eat. I’m told our bodi…
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