Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims
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Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims is a church in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York City. It was a station of the Underground Railroad, and the pulpit of Henry Ward Beecher, its first pastor. There is a fragment of Plymouth Rock in the church.
Today the church is a member of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches.
On the grounds of the church, located at 75 Hicks Street, there is a statue of Beecher by sculptor Gutzon Borglum.
[edit] External links
- http://www.plymouthchurch.org/
- http://www.henrywardbeecher.com
- Abraham Lincoln and Henry Ward Beecher Henry Ward Beecher
[edit] Bibliography
- Debby Applegate, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher (Doubleday, June 2006).
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