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Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a church in Terre Haute Indiana. The church is named for Richard Allen who founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia in 1787. The congregation in Terre Haute began meeting in 1837 in a small white church in town. This original structure had a tunnel beneath it that led to bank of the Wabash River for escaped slaves going toward Canada on the Underground Railroad.

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