Hackney Chapel AME Zion Church: correspondence 2

              COMMITTEE
Chairperson
Henry Hardin
Co- Chairperson
Vivian Calloway
Trc~s urer
Loretta Walker
Secretary
Pamela Smith
Fund-Raisin g
Coord i nator
Vanessa Black
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August 30, 2000
Attached Addresses:
Hackney Chapel AME Zion Church, Hackney Chapel Road, Lenoir City,
Tennessee, was placed on the National and Tennessee Registers of Historic
Places by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the
Interior on July 6, 2000.
The nomination of Hackney Chapel was a result of .a study of rural African­American
churches by the Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee
State University. The project was to develop a contextual history of signifiCant
events, people, and architecture associated with said churches. For Tennessee's
African Americans, no place is more important for community, history, and
identity than their churches. Especially in the countryside, churches, often with
adjacent cemeteries and/or schools, are extremely signifiCant places to study and
document African-American culture and heritage. The project is an on-going
effort to identify and document these special places. *
The family members of Hackney Chapel will have a ceremony to celebrate
this momentous occasion on October 7, 2000 at 1:00 p.m. You are hereby
invited to attend this ceremony and offer words of support and/or
congratulations.
While we pray you can honor us with your presence, please notify me
using any of the below listed methods of either an affirmative response or
regrets no later than Friday, September 15, 2000:
Telephone: 865-670-6658 day or evening (voicemail available)
E-mail: vanessa b1 2000@yahoo.com
(vanessa (underscore) b1 (underscore) 2000@yahoo.com
Mail: 8651 Sunpoint Rd., Knoxville, TN 37923
Thank you for your prompt attention.
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Vanessa Black
Hackney Chapel AME Zion Church
* Excerpt from Tennessee Rural African-American Church Project Brochure
Directions to Hackney Chapel AME Zion Church from Lenoir City:
Take Highway 321 N toward Maryville.
Tum left at Antioch Church Road East(- 1 mile after cro ssing Ft. Loudon Dam)
Go 2. 3 Miles to Hackney Ch ap el Road .
Hackney Chapel is approximately 5 miles from intersection of Hwy. 321 N and
Broadway, Lenoir City.