LEXINGTON, Ky. (FOX 56) — Built in 1826, Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Lexington is rich in history, with nearly every corner holding stories long kept in the shadows.
Up a narrow staircase behind the pulpit, the walls act as silent witnesses to the journeys of enslaved people escaping toward freedom — history preserved inside the church for nearly two centuries.
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Standing in that tiny room, the narrow stairs led to, Clarence Smith, a trustee at St. Paul AME Church, said, “Wow, untold history that we never knew as kids growing up in the church… You touch the walls, and you just think, ‘What were they thinking?’”
That hidden history is now being brought into the light…