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Rodney Presbyterian Church is a historic church in Alcorn, Mississippi. ==History== Plantation owner and millionaire David Hunt (1779-1861), also known as "King David," donated the land upon which the church was built.〔Dunbar Hunt, "Sketch of David Hunt," Fayette, Mississippi: ''The Fayette Chronicle'', 29 May 1908, Volume XLI, Number 35 ()〕 The church building was built from 1829 to 1832 in the Federal architectural style.〔Sherry Pace, ''Historic Churches of Mississippi'', Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2007, p. xi ()〕〔Jim Fraiser, ''Mississippi River Country Tales: A Celebration of 500 Years of Deep South History'', Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 2000, p. 96 ()〕〔June Davis Davidson, ''Country Stores of Mississippi'', The History Press, 2014, pp. 93-94 ()〕 It was built with red bricks, "rounded archives, "a stepped gable" and "an octagonal bell tower."〔 The church played a specific role during the American Civil War of 1861-1865. Indeed, on Sunday, September 13, 1863, Reverend Baker invited crew members of the Union USS Rattler gunboat to attend his service.〔〔 However, Confederates burst into the church to arrest them.〔〔 When other Union crew members found out about the Confederate violation of Sunday truce, they fired a cannonball at the church, which damaged its front wall.〔〔 The damage is still visible to this day.〔〔 It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rodney Presbyterian Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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