Outside a historic Memphis church, a new marker honors its ‘remarkable journey’
Centenary United Methodist Church historians Thomas and Marie Milam sought the historic marker for the outside the church on East McLemore Avenue. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
Centenary United Methodist Church in Soulsville is 160 years old this year. With a new marker to celebrate Centenary’s legacy, church members say the congregation’s history is not just about the past.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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