Religious fervor and political animosities combined after the Civil War to spawn a flurry of new church societies in Conway — and across much of the country, for that matter. Tensions between Republicans and Democrats in Conway led to the formation of a Methodist church there, which split from the Congregational society in the village but shared the same building for another long generation.
Devout farmers in South Conway, at least some of whom had been ejected from the Freewill Baptist congregation there, formed their own Methodist group in the late 1860s and built a substantial building at the foot of Perkins Hill Road by 1874. Many of those Methodist converts later moved to Center Conway (which they called Conway Centre) and carried their denomination into that village.
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