Thursday_01-January-2026
Established in 1831, this church and building was originally located in the Half Acre community on Lily Creek.
In the early 1900's, the building was moved to it's current location; to appreciate the difficulty in this, you should familiarize yourself with the location, narrow crooked roads, and steep terrain of Lily Creek on Half Acre Road; there is no good way in or out of there.
If I am not mistaken, between the weatherboard exterior and solid wood interior panelling, the actual structure of this church is a log building; in which case, they probably just numbered the logs, disassembled the building, moved the logs, and put it all back together; if you doubt the log construction, go there and take notice of how thick the walls are.
The Sunday school rooms annex on the rear was added in the 1940's; the original 1940s Sunday School rooms did not exceed the width of the main building as they do now.
Up until the mid-1980s, this church was surrounded on three sides by thick Beech woods for a couple hundred yards in each direction; within twenty feet of the back wall; within sixty feet of the North wall; and, the South corner of Airport Road was big timber right up to the corner.
On the South side, that is now naked black-top parking, were a grove of big shade trees; I don't see a tree or a bush on the property now.
Widening and straightening US Hwy 127 took away a lot of the front yard and put the edge of the road and sidewalk almost in the front door.
West side of US Hwy 127 - North of Union Underwear
US Hwy 127__Mile Marker #15.33
Russell Springs - Russell County - Kentucky
37° 0'54.48" North Parallel - 85° 4'33.93" West Meridian
986' Above Sea Level
Photo taken through the glass of a moving vehicle.
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