St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church

First imagined by worshippers of Black and Native American descent who gathered to worship under a grape vine arbor on December 29, 1864, St. Paul A.M.E. Church was accepted into the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1870. Its members built the first church, a log cabin, on Merritt Mill Road. The land was purchased in 1878 and a new church building constructed in 1892. The church has recently purchased 22 acres of land in north Chapel Hill to create St. Paul Village, the future site of a new and expanded church building.