Oakley Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic

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located at Tebbetts,

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. It was built in 1878, and is a one-story, frame gable front church on a

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foundation. Also on the property are the contributing small cistern (c. 1900) and

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. There are approximately 80 known burials in the cemetery. It was listed on the

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in 2008.

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