Craigs Chapel Rd., Greenback, Tennessee. County/parish: Loudon.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 12, 2001. NRIS 01000256.
Part of Rural African-American Churches in Tennessee MPS (NRIS 64500618).
2 contributing buildings. 2 contributing sites. 1 contributing structure.
Craigs Chapel AME Zion Church is a historic church in Greenback, Tennessee.
Craigs Chapel is one of several historic African-American churches in rural Tennessee that had a black school and a cemetery located alongside the church, on the same plot of land. The church was built in 1896 and was followed by an elementary school in 1899 and the cemetery in 1903.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
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