Sam Black Church

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Sam Black Church, known today as Sam Black United Methodist Church,<ref>County Convention & Visitors Bureau listing for Sam Black Church</ref> is an historic Carpenter Gothic-style church located at Sam Black Church near the unincorporated community of Smoot in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

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Sam Black Church, 2017

The historic white frame church was built in 1902 and named in honor of Reverend Sam Black, a circuit-riding Southern Methodist preacher who died in 1899.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is a small one story building with a gable roof. It features a square, open bell tower with a hipped roof. It is located at the intersection of Interstate 64 and U.S. Route 60 on the Midland Trail, a National Scenic Byway.<ref name="dhr">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.<ref name="nris"/>

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