More than 35 community members came to the Lexington County Museum to re-dedicate the “Old Time Religion” marker.

Among them were Congressman Joe Wilson and Town Council members Hazel Livingston and Ron Williams.

The market has been moved to the museum from its original location at Church and West Butler Streets in downtown Lexington after it was knocked over and damaged in a car accident.

The marker was originally erected in 1976 by the Lexington Bicentennial Commission to mark where Charles Tillman, a traveling evangelist from Georgia, heard African-Americans sing “Old Time Religion” in 1888.

Tillman wrote down the song while staying with the Leaphart family in what is now the museum’s tour office and later published it.

Tillman’s arrangement became popular and spread throughout the world.

The re-dedication ceremony was highlighted by Constance Caractor Flemming singing “Father I Stretch My Hands to Thee” and leading the group in a rendition of “Old Time Religion.”

Several surviving members of the Lexington Bicentennial Commission were in attendance as well. The marker can be seen off Fox Street near the museum’s tour office.