(from the Internet Archive, linked from the original Roots of Roane Web site)

A glance at the identity of Saint Andrew’s Church

Even as Harriman was being born in 1890-91, the Episcopal Church’s presence was brought here with the city’s founders. Names such as Ayres and Byrd were prominent among those who brought the worship of the Episcopal Church to Harriman one Sunday in October of Harriman’s first year. The first services were held in the Byrd‘s home and were led by laymen. Soon thereafter the little band of Episcopalians in the Utopia of Temperance sought and found the ministry of various visiting clergy. Ironically, the first resident clergyman in Harriman was one who, as a younger man, had been the photographer hired by the land company to record the beginnings of the new city as land was sold and the building began along streets of mud. Alexander Cassidy Killeffer, who had served churches in Fayetteville and Monterey, Tennessee, came back to Harriman as first resident priest of Saint Andrew’s Church.

Since Killeffer, there has been a long line of distinguished clergy serving the people of Saint Andrew’s and surrounding area. Our new rector, the Rev. Joseph Pinner, is with us, and hit the ground running on the Feast of Pentecost, May 23, 1999.

2025:  from the Church’s current Web site

Our original building was located in the 600 block of Trenton Street and was dedicated in 1893 by Bishop Thomas P. Gailor.

Click here to view the church’s current Web site, which contains a drawing of the original church building on the “About” page.