[Talk-us] dubious church node

[John F. Eldredge]

On 9/29/2017 9:59 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote:
> On 9/29/2017 8:31 PM, Max Erickson wrote:
>> Yeah, a Google search for "Mill Creek Church nashville" has
>>
>> http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nashvillearchives/millcreek.html 
>>
>>
>> as an early result. It says the church building has been dismantled
>> but mentions a cemetery, which still exists nearby the mislocated osm
>> node:
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/53498031#map=16/36.1182/-86.7267
>>
>>
>> Max
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Talk-us mailing list
>> Talk-us at openstreetmap.org
>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
>
> That sounds like a reference to the original Mill Creek Baptist Church 
> (there is a current-day church by that name, but it isn't descended 
> from the earlier church). I am the person who mapped the Mill Creek 
> Baptist Church Graveyard, and am a board member in a nonprofit 
> organization, Friends of Mill Creek Baptist Church Graveyard, Inc., 
> that maintains the graveyard. The Mill Creek Baptist Church was 
> located within the graveyard property, a couple of miles away from 
> where this node in question is located. It might possibly have been a 
> different church of some other denomination.  Before removing it, I 
> will post a question to a Facebook group that discusses local history, 
> and see if anyone can tell me if there was ever a church there.
>
>
I have now learned more on a local-history Facebook group.  The location 
on Antioch Pike is the original location of the Mill Creek Baptist 
Church congregation that now meets on Wallace Road, about two miles 
away.  This congregation is not descended from the original Mill Creek 
Baptist Church, which was about two miles away in a different direction.

-- 
John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.  Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


---
This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
https://www.avast.com/antivirus