Olive Branch Methodist Episcopal Church Explained

Olive Branch United Methodist Church
Nearest City:Finchville, Kentucky
Coordinates:38.1272°N -85.2625°W
Built:c. 1861
Builder:John Ford, Younger Ford, and Boswell, Taylor
Architecture:Antebellum Vernacular
Added:December 27, 1988
Refnum:88002895

The Olive Branch United Methodist Church is a historic church in Finchville, Kentucky. It was established in 1801 at Pickets Dam. Current facility was built in 1861.

The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

The building appears to have been built in about 1861 and was on a circuit with the Rockbridge Church and the Methodist church in Graefenburg. It is a brick gable-end entry church.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=88002895}} Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory ]. National Park Service. C. Worsham . April 1986 . November 26, 2017. With .