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The Sarah Catherine Muldrow Women's
Missionary Society, a department of the Mt. Zion AME
Church-Green Cove Springs, salutes the work of the Palmetto
Community Development Corporation, Inc. We are “ women
called to discipleship to grow in knowledge and experience of
God through Jesus Christ...to support the mission of the church
and empowered by the Holy Spirit...to help one another engage
in ministry and action, …in faith to God's redemptive plan for the
church, the society, and the world.”
It is in a historical context that we also remember our
namesake, Sarah Catherine Martha Mitchell Muldrow (1906-
1987), who moved to Green Cove Springs in 1906, and later met
and married Joseph Muldrow (1892-1963), a 33˚ Mason. They
owned the Muldrow Hotel to provide housing and to accommo-
date events. Tenants included her life-long friends Augusta Fells
Savage and Zora Neale Hurston. Mary McLeod Bethune was a
guest, and Sunday dinner was a feast with many ministers and
high profile leaders from Jacksonville, according to relative Gwen
Hunter, who resides in Green Cove Springs. When her husband
died, she continued to work at her church and the hotel that was
once the only commercial place for Black American travelers to stay.
Keep on pressing forward!
Anita Jackson, Local WMS President
Rev. George L. Reed, Jr., Pastor
Mrs. Tammyla Harris-Reed, Leading Lady
Mt. Zion AME Church-Green Cove Springs
Established 1873
The Muldrow Hotel before
it was demolished, located
on Martin Luther King Jr.
Blvd., formerly Old
Middleburg Road