Indian Mission Church Explained

Indian Mission Church
Location:Junction of Delaware Route 5 and Road 48, Millsboro, Delaware
Coordinates:38.6736°N -75.2347°W
Architecture:Late Gothic Revival
Built:1921
Added:April 26, 1979
Refnum:79003307

Indian Mission Church is a historic Methodist church located in Millsboro, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in 1921, and is a one-story, wood-frame building covered with clapboard siding and in the Late Gothic Revival style. It features a two-story hipped roof tower and lancet windows. The congregation was organized in 1881 from the Harmony Church after the strongly Native American families of the Nanticoke community separated after the hiring of an African American minister.[1] [2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

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  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=79003307}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Indian Mission Church]. unknown. n.d..
  2. http://archives.delaware.gov/markers/sc/INDIAN%20MISSION%20UNITED%20METHODIST%20CHURCH%20SC-122.shtml Delaware Public Archives: Indian Mission Church marker