Bethel A.M.E. Zion Church

The Bethel A.M.E. Zion Church was founded in 1873, as a mission, known as the “Little Ark.”  The late Jack Murchison built a brush shelter to preach to two neighboring plantations.  A few years later, a Presbyterian minister preached at Little Ark and established it as a Presbyterian church.  Subsequently, a Methodist minister from Fayetteville arrived and converted them to Methodism, which later became apart of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church movement.