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'''First Presbyterian Church''' was established in Little Rock in 1828 under the leadership of Reverend [[James W. Moore]]. Moore was known for removing "wickedness and vice" from the town and replacing it with "morality and piety." | '''First Presbyterian Church''' was established in Little Rock in 1828 under the leadership of Reverend [[James W. Moore]]. Moore was known for removing "wickedness and vice" from the town and replacing it with "morality and piety." | ||
Revision as of 13:53, 4 July 2009
First Presbyterian Church was established in Little Rock in 1828 under the leadership of Reverend James W. Moore. Moore was known for removing "wickedness and vice" from the town and replacing it with "morality and piety."
In the mid-twentieth century the church and its classroom building occupied the southwest corner of East Eighth and South Scott streets. The Little Rock Boys Club stood directly across Scott Street to the east.
References
- Ira Don Richards, Story of a Rivertown: Little Rock in the Nineteenth Century (1969), 14-15.
