Murray United Methodist Church
Tradition holds this Methodist congregation organized around the end of the Civil War and initially worshipped under a brush arbor. By the 1910s members built a wood frame church at this site. They also opened Murray School, a public school for local Black children. It was later known as Murray-Branch and located 1 mi. N on Mallard Rd. The school closed in 1953.
Murray United Methodist Church was named after a member of the local Murray family, who provided the congregation’s first place of worship. The first church at this site was later brick-veneered and still stands. In the mid-1970s members began building a new church south of the old one. After several years of work, it opened for worship in 1977 and remains in use today.
Where it stands. 1216 Orangeburg Rd., Summerville vicinity, Summerville vicinity