West Market Street United Methodist Church Archives
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- 1834 church book of Greensboro Station
- This minute book, which dates 1834 to 1849, includes information on both Greensboro as well as Jamestown. There is one later period included in the volume, documenting the Charity Fund for 1953-54. Included are lists of preachers and presiding elders, baptisms, and members, both white and free "colored" as well as slaves.
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- Directory Western North Carolina Conference 1905, West Market Street Church, Greensboro, N.C.
- This directory lists the attendees to the Western North Carolina Conference which was held at West Market Street Church in 1905. Included is a portrait of Bishop A. W. Wilson, who presided at the conference.
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- Historical sketch read at 100th anniversary of founding of West Market Church
- This 29 page history covers the church's history from 1830 to 1930, with a small selection of photographs.
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- Letters of Elizabeth O. Garrett and Ella B. Troy
- These two letters, from early church members, document the church's early history. The note from Elizabeth O. Garrett was written to the Reverend S.B. Turrentine in 1902, when Garrett was 78. She reminisces about his profession of faith at a camp meeting (age 14), noting that Joshua Bethel preached from the text, Matthew 11; 28-30. Garrett's family moved into Greensboro and joined the Methodist church on South Elm in 1844. Mrs. Ella B. Troy's 1902 letter to Mr. W. H. Alderman reflects on her early life in the church, including being received into it by the Rev. William Bobbitt in 1855.
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- Materials relating to Nina Troy mission work
- Nina Troy (1879-1972) served as a missionary to China, leaving Greensboro in 1912 and returning in the 1920s. This material documents some of her experiences while serving in China.
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- Program West Market St. M. E. Sunday School opening exercises, August 11, 1918
- With the end of World War I just three months away, this program at the church had a patriotic theme including the words to the songs, America, The Star-Spangled Banner, and Keep the Home-Fires Burning.
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- Report for 1910 home and foreign missions
- This scrapbook documents the activities of the Home & Foreign Missions committee of West Market Street Church, and includes all types of materials, especially photographs, clippings, pamphlets, and programs.
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- Seventh session of the Western North Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Church [program]
- This program documents this annual conference, held at West Market Street Methodist Church in October, 1945.
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- West Market Street United Methodist Church, Exterior photographs 1890s
- There are two versions of the same image, one being the original, with all three images probably taken in the late 19th century after the building was constructed in 1893.
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- West Market Street United Methodist Church, Exterior photographs 1910s
- There are a wide variety of images, including color postcards which seem to date mainly from the 1910s to the 1930s.
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- West Market Street United Methodist Church, Exterior photographs 1950s
- Views from both street level, and from rooftop, showing the front of the church. The street level view, taken from Ashe Street looking toward West Market, no longer exists. The street was closed with the construction of the new Guilford County Courthouse which opened in 1974.
