This little clapboard church appears on South Lodge Street, directly across from Imperial Tobacco, on page 9 of the 1913 Sanborn fire insurance map of Wilson. It was labeled “M.E. Church (Negro),” but which Methodist Episcopal church was it?

A look in the city directory only deepens the mystery. Here are the two Black Methodist churches:

The first church was today’s Saint John A.M.E. Zion Church. The second was today’s Saint Luke A.M.E. Church. Neither is the church on the map above.

Here’s the entry for Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church:

That seems close, but not quite. Saint Mark’s was in the next block of South Lodge just across South Street.

I’ll let you know if I figure this out.