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YEAR
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GIBSONVILLE
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METHODISM
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USA/World
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1760
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Methodist
colonists arrive in
America
|
|
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1773
|
|
First
conference of American Methodist preachers
|
Boston
Tea Party
|
| 1777 |
Andrew
Gibson moved into Guilford County to farm and to mine gold |
|
|
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1784
|
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ME
Church is founded
|
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1830
|
|
Organization
of MP Church
|
First
locomotive steam engine put into service.
|
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1845
|
|
The
ME Church, South is organized
|
Florida
statehood
Texas
annexed
|
| 1851 |
Joseph
Gibson, Andrew’s son, graded the road bed for North Carolina Railroad. |
|
|
| 1854 |
The
depot was built |
|
|
| 1855 |
The
first train came through. The area around the depot was named
Gibsonville in honor of Joseph Gibson |
|
|
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1871
|
The
“Town of Gibsonville” was chartered by the NC General Assembly.
|
|
Great
Chicago
fire
|
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1887
|
Mr.
Berry Davidson established the original cotton mill in Gibsonville.
The
Methodist
Protestant
Church, the first church in Gibsonville, was built.
|
|
|
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1906
|
Rev.
Raper, an ME Pastor, conducted a religious service in Gibsonville.
|
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San Francisco
earthquake and
fire
|
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1907
|
The
Methodist Episcopal Church, South was organized in Gibsonville.
|
|
|
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1911
|
New
Gibsonville ME Church building was completed.
|
|
|
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1938
|
Gibsonville
ME and MP congregations merged.
|
|
|
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1945
|
The
“hut” that housed the Sunday School was replaced with the
Education
Building
|
|
United
Nations organized
Harry
Truman inaugurated
WW
II ends
|
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1962
|
The
Methodist
Church
sanctuary was replaced with a new, modern building
|
|
Cuban
missile crisis
|
|
1968
|
We
became the
Gibsonville
United
Methodist
Church
.
|
Establishment
of the United
Methodist
Church
|
|
|
2002
|
"Forward
in Faith" and "Advancing in Faith" campaigns funded a
major refurbishment of both the sanctuary and the
Education
Building
|
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