St. Peter’s Episcopal Church

Kent County · dedicated 2018 · 523 North Main Street, Smyrna

Founded in 1740, St. Peter’s was originally located near Duck Creek on the old King’s Highway. In 1762 the congregation moved to a newly constructed stone chapel on the site of St. Peter’s Cemetery. When the chapel fell into disrepair, the congregation built a church on Union Street in 1827. Stones from the old chapel were used to erect a wall around the Cummins’ family burial plot in the cemetery. The current church, built in the Gothic Revival style, underwent renovations in 1857. St. Peter’s formally incorporated on September 27, 1858.

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