Stop 17 - Presbyterian Church, 501 Washington

17. Presbyterian Church, 501 Washington, erected in 1844, façade not original. Rev. Frederick Starr, a native of Rochester, NY, and Yale graduate, served as minister in Weston from 1850 to 1856. Starr taught the enslaved to read (see stop 16) and inducted several, including Dinah & Thomas Robinson, into the church. Unfortunately, for his abolitionist work, he was indicted and had to flee town in 1856. The church closed around 1902. In the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan housed its meetings there. In 1934 the Christian Assembly Church bought the building and still resides there.