the name of the congregation and the events surrounding its formation. Most local historians (including Ellis & Evans), atlases, and local directories of 19th Century Lancaster refer to Bethel as the "African Methodist Episcopal."' Lancaster City"s first directory refers to it, however, in 1843 as "St

before the Civil War, were also central figures in the Underground Railroad, the development of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Negro Convention Movement—all phenomena which contributed directly to the emergence of a national leadership and a national plan of action for Blacks before 1860

Historical Markers of the Heritage of the United Methodist Church in Lancaster County by The Reverend Abram W. Sangray The following Roadside Markers were put in place in Lancaster County, in the summer of 1984, as a bicentennial project of the United Methodist Church of Lancaster. Each description