Broadway Presbyterian Church
Broadway Presbyterian Church, on Broadway and Kentucky avenue, represents an amalgamation, or union, of the First Presbyterian Church, The Old School Presbyterian Church and The First Cumberland Presbyterian Church. The last named organization, a few years ago, sold their church building on Seventh and Osage streets to the Masonic organizations of Sedalia, turned the proceeds over to Broadway Presbyterian Church and transferred the membership there. The Broadway Presbyterian Church has also furnished the nucleus for the remaining Presbyterian Churches in the city. Some years ago there was some dissatisfaction in the Broadway Church and about 120 of its members asked the right to withdraw and form an organization of their own. They did withdraw and organized the Central Presbyterian Church, now located On Fifth and Lamine streets, the Broadway Church giving the new organization the lot where the new church now stands. A few of the members withdrawing from the Broadway Church to form the Central Church did not enter the latter organization but organized another church now known as the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at 1608 South Harrison Avenue. Hence the three Presbyterian Churches in the city at the present time, the Broadway Presbyterian, Central Presbyterian and Cumberland.
(History of Pettis County Missouri by Mark A McGruder 1919)