Star Hill AME Church, also known as Star of the East Church, is a historic African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church building and cemetery, located roughly 12 miles from the Byway. It is a one-story, three-bay by three-bay, gable roofed, frame building in a vernacular Gothic Revival-style. It features a small bell tower at the roof ridge. Interments in the adjacent cemetery are believed to begin with the founding of the church in the 1860s, but the earliest marked grave dates from the early 1890s.

The church is an important focal point of the community of Star Hill, an early community of African American settlement in Kent County.

In the museum, which is open by appointment only, you’ll learn what life was like for enslaved and freed African Americans during the 1800’s through exhibits about slave life and African-American history. The church was once an Underground Railroad station where slaves were hidden. Star Hill African Methodist Episcopal Church was built in 1863. 

Logistics:
The museum is open by appointment only.

Getting Here:
1357 Voshell Mill-Star Hill Rd, Dover, DE 19901
(302) 697-9903

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