Mt. Olive AME Church 2 Hicks Avenue, Annapolis, Originally founded in 1866 as Macedonia AME at Parole, a post-bellum black community, the first AME Church in Parole was built from the wood frame of the old Mt. Moriah AME when that church was replaced by the brick structure on Franklin Street in Annapolis around 1874. The Macedonia structure was later abandoned, according to some informants, because of a condemnation order. A new site was purchased from Lewis Houseclaw, one of the eight new trustees of the church and the parsonage built on that site, which was located "up the hill" on Hicks Avenue. The church was later renamed Mt. Olive AME