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Shaffer Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church IN408 Print E-mail

Structure, circa 1893, is Muncie's oldest standing public school building. Purchased by church congregation, circa 1928. Rallying point in August 1930 when bodies of two African-American men, lynched in Marion, were brought to Muncie for embalmment by church's pastor J.E. Johnson, a mortician.


Erected 1996 Indiana Historical Bureau and The Delaware County Historical Alliance.

1501 E. Highland Ave. & Wolf St., E. of McCullough Park, Muncie, Delaware County Indiana

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