Indian Mission Church is a historic

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located near Millsboro,

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. It was built in 1921, and is a one-story, wood-frame building covered with clapboard siding and in the

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style. It features a two-story hipped roof tower and lancet windows. The congregation was organized in 1881 from the Harmony Church after the strongly Native American families of the

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separated after the hiring of an African American minister.Delaware Public Archives: Indian Mission Church marker
/ref> It was added to the

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in 1979.

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Indian Mission United Methodist Church website
Indian Mission Church 2020b

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