{"id":1955,"date":"2012-03-03T20:34:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T20:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2013-05-02T17:22:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T17:22:59","slug":"sulphur-springs-summer-2009-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/?p=1955","title":{"rendered":"Sulphur Springs Summer 2009 Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1947\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SHMBchurch_site.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1947\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1947\" title=\"SHMBchurch_site\" src=\"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SHMBchurch_site-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"site of first African American Church in Sulphur Springs\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Site of first African American Church in Sulphur Springs. Photo by Margaret Allsopp<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Spring Hill M.B. Church was organized in 1915 by Rev. H.M. Dillard and built in 1942 by Rev. C.H. Gardner. \u00a0The cornerstone was laid by St. John Lodge Number 30 in 1985.\u00a0 The church just celebrated its 95<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary.\u00a0This property, located at 704 East Humphrey Street, is currently owned by Ambassadors of Christ, Inc.\u00a0 The church\u2019s history is engraved on the cornerstone.\u00a0 The Rev. Barbara D. Richardson is listed as the pastor and founder of the current church<span style=\"font-size: 11px;\">.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1948\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SHMBchurch_cornerstone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1948\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1948 \" title=\"SHMBchurch_cornerstone\" src=\"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SHMBchurch_cornerstone-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"cornerstone- first African American church in Sulphur Springs\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SHMBchurch_cornerstone-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SHMBchurch_cornerstone-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cornerstone- First African American Church in Sulphur Springs. Photo by Margaret Allsopp<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1949\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SHMBchurch_current-sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1949\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1949\" title=\"SHMBchurch_current sign\" src=\"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SHMBchurch_current-sign-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"current church sign\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SHMBchurch_current-sign-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SHMBchurch_current-sign-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ambassadors of Christ Temple of Prayer sign.  Photo by Margaret Allsopp<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring Hill M.B. Church was organized in 1915 by Rev. H.M. Dillard and built in 1942 by Rev. C.H. Gardner. \u00a0The cornerstone was laid by St. John Lodge Number 30 in 1985.\u00a0 The church just celebrated its 95th\u00a0anniversary.\u00a0This property, located at 704 East Humphrey Street, is currently owned by Ambassadors\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/?p=1955\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36,33,35,37,30,56,31,32,38,34],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sulphur-springs","tag-elders","tag-florida","tag-heritage","tag-heritage-preservation","tag-spring-hill","tag-sulphur-springs","tag-sulphur-springs-museum-and-heritage-center","tag-tampa","tag-technology","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570,"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritagelab.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}