Green Hill Place
Louisburg, Franklin County, North Carolina
Marker Inscription
Green Hill Place. Site of the first annual conference of Methodist Episcopal Church, 1785, hosted in home of Green Hill, minister, one mi. S.
Erected by North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
The Story
In 1785, just two years after American independence, Methodist preachers gathered at the home of minister Green Hill for the first annual conference of the newly organized Methodist Episcopal Church in America. The meeting helped launch one of the fastest-growing religious movements of the early republic. Green Hill's home, a mile south of this marker, became a landmark of American Methodist history.
Why it matters
The gathering marks the organizational birth of American Methodism, a faith that would spread across the frontier and reshape the nation's religious landscape.
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- · Green Hill
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- · First Methodist Episcopal Conference
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