Mt. Zion Cemetery Shelter House

The first location of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Henryville. The Mt. Zion Shelter House is approximately where the church once stood, but it is now used as a meeting place for Memorial Day celebrations as well as other gatherings.

According to Baird's History of Clark County, Indiana; "About the year 1835 the Methodists organized and built what was known as the Mount Zion Methodist Episcopal church. It was built on the farm of the Rev. Seymour Guernsey in the plat of ground now known as the Mount Zion Cemetery. This house was built of hewn logs, ... and was perhaps twenty-four by thirty-six feet in size. In 1839, the west end of the house was sawed out and an addition was added. This house was used as a preaching place until sometime in the sixties...and was used for a number of years as a shelter in time of storm for those who came to bury their dead."