Briceville Community Church
The Briceville Community Church is a nondenominational church located in Briceville, Tennessee, United States. Built in 1887, the church served as a center of social life and community affairs for the Coal Creek Valley during the valley's coal mining boom period in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. In 2003, the church was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its historical role and as an example of rural Gothic Revival architecture.
Briceville Community Church and Cemetery
The church, viewed from TN-116
Monument of Cross Mountain Mine disaster victim Eugene Ault, which displays Ault's "farewell message"
The church's facade
Briceville is an unincorporated community in Anderson County, Tennessee. It is included in the Knoxville, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area. The community is named for railroad tycoon and one-term Democratic U.S. Senator Calvin S. Brice of Ohio, who was instrumental in bringing railroad service to the town.
View from the Briceville Community Church Cemetery
Briceville in 1891, at the start of the Coal Creek War