Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

As the conflict between the North and the South boiled during the mid-19th century,

Southern slaves did all they could to flee their captors and rebuild their lives up North.

Many ended up in Canada while other settled in states like New York, Connecticut, and

New Jersey.

It was in New Jersey, in the town of Quentin, to be exact, where John Berry lived.

John was a bit of a loner, living by himself in the Quentin Woods, away from the rest

of the community, which had scattered itself into clusters of homes all over the area,

tiny individual neighborhoods that mostly kept to themselves.

He was a spiritual man, too, a Methodist, and he had a divine revelation to bring everyone

closer.

They had come so far and risked so much, and John Berry believed that the only way they

would survive the war raging in the South was together.

They needed a meeting place, a symbol of unity, faith, and strength.

In short, they needed a church.

John erected a log cabin in the Quentin Woods, as well as a small cemetery next door.

He called his new house of worship, Berry's Chapel, and it seemed that his hard work didn't

go unnoticed.

Berry's Chapel became such a hit with the community that African-American Methodists flocked from

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