Today, we continue our journey through what was once the Pomona area of Greensboro. According to its cornerstone, the above church on Clifton Road was organized in 1906 and rebuilt in 1950. We can't find a history of the church online; the best available comes from obituaries. A News & Record obituary for the Rev. Clinton M. Oates, 86, states that he had been a minister at Pomona Baptist. Rev. Oates died in 1990. More recently, September 17, 2020, Mildred Cook Worsham passed away at the age of 94. When she was a young girl, her family moved from Mooresville to Greensboro where her father, Rev. Walter B. Cook, accepted the position of minister at Pomona Baptist.
So, in the mid-20th century, Pomona was a viable church community. It would be really nice to have a church history as this church would have served workers at the Pomona Cotton Mill on Merritt Drive and the Pomona Terra Cotta Manufacturing Company on West Market Street. Somewhere, along the way, the the church changed hands. Gone is the Baptist affiliation and the pews; today, it is the Clifton Road campus of Mercy Hill Church with round tables and chairs in the sanctuary. Mercy Hill's website will tell you how to affiliate with the non-demonational church.
A lovely little church.
Posted by: William Kendall | Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 06:44 AM