Talk:Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Springtown, New Jersey)

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The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle (talk) 22:04, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

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Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

• ... that the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (pictured) in Springtown, New Jersey was a stop on the Greenwich Line of the Underground Railroad to help fugitive slaves escape? Source: The small, concrete masonry church known as Bethel AME Church is as a rare, surviving African American institution associated with multiple participants in the Underground Railroad. Located in the heart of the black community of Springtown in Greenwich Township, the church and its congregation offered lodging to fugitive slaves travelling north after leaving Maryland's Eastern Shore and Delaware. and The church and community were part of the Underground Railroad route through South Jersey known as the Greenwich Line. The line began in Springtown, New Jersey through the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church in Small Gloucester and north to Mount Holly, Burlington and Jersey City. (see page 21)
  • ALT1: ... that the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (pictured) in Springtown, New Jersey was used by Harriet Tubman to help fugitive slaves escape? Source: The small, concrete masonry church known as Bethel AME Church is as a rare, surviving African American institution associated with multiple participants in the Underground Railroad. Located in the heart of the black community of Springtown in Greenwich Township, the church and its congregation offered lodging to fugitive slaves travelling north after leaving Maryland's Eastern Shore and Delaware. Oral histories attest that Harriet Tubman used the Springton/Greenwich station from 1849-1853 during her passage north through Delaware to Wilmington - one of her most famous routes.
  • ALT2: ... that Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (pictured) is the oldest African Methodist Episcopal Church in New Jersey and one of the few remaining buildings where Richard Allen preached? Source: Today, Bethel Othello African Methodist Episcopal Church is the oldest African Methodist Episcopal Church in the State. It is one of the last churches in existence at which Richard Allen, the founder and first bishop of African Methodism, preached.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Carolyn Price Horton

5x expanded by Dwkaminski (talk). Self-nominated at 13:46, 17 January 2023 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Dwkaminski: Good article. though there is a possible concern with copyvios (specifically with how some sentences seem a tiny bit close to the cumberland county article) but I don't feel as if it's too big of a deal. Though a rewording of some sentences would still be perferred. Onegreatjoke (talk) 03:24, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

• @Onegreatjoke: Thank you for the review. I have re-written some of the copy and reduced the Earwig copyvio score from 24.8% down to 19.4%. Dwkaminski (talk) 13:29, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Big gap

The "History" section of this article skips from the Civil War to the 1990s, a gap of some 130 years. What happened during that time? Did the congregation remain large until the end of that period, or did it begin to shrivel soon after the war? Or was there a drop during the Great Northward Migration, when factory towns were attractive to those seeking work?

The belfry also seems to have no bell in it now. When was that removed? Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 23:04, 15 February 2023 (UTC)