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Rodney Presbyterian Church is located in Mississippi
Rodney Presbyterian Church
Location in Mississippi
Rodney Presbyterian Church is located in the United States
Rodney Presbyterian Church
Location in the United States
Nearest city Alcorn, Mississippi
Area 22 acres (8.9 ha)
Built 1832
NRHP reference No. 73001018
Added to NRHP February 6, 1973

Rodney Presbyterian Church is a historic church in Alcorn, Mississippi, United States.

History

Plantation owner and millionaire David Hunt (1779-1861), also known as "King David," donated the land upon which the church was built. Presbyterian Reverend Jeremiah Chamberlain began the building of the church in 1829.

The church building was built from 1829 to 1832 in the Federal architectural style. It was built with red bricks, "rounded archives, "a stepped gable" and "an octagonal bell tower."

The church played a specific role during the American Civil War of 1861-1865. On Sunday, September 13, 1863, Reverend Baker invited crew members of the Union USS Rattler gunboat to attend his service. However, Confederates burst into the church to arrest them. When other Union crew members found out about the Confederate violation of Sunday truce, they fired a cannonball at the church, which damaged its front wall. The damage is still visible to this day.

It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973.

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