White Marsh Church

White Marsh Church is a Virginia historical marker in Lancaster County, dedicated 1948.

Rte. 3, just east of intersection with Pinckardsville Rd.

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This church, founded in 1792, was the mother church of Methodism in the Northern Neck of Virginia. The first camp meeting in this section was held here. Bishops Enoch George and David S. Doggett were members of this church. Bishop Joshua Soule, author of the constitution of the General Conference of the American Methodist Church, preached at meetings here.

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1755 · Virginie, Maryland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1787 · [French troops route to Yorktown] (Historical map archives, georeferenced via Allmaps)
1794 · Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1807 · Map Of Virginia (lower right sheet) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1818 · Map of Virginia, 1818 (lower right sheet) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, 1794, covering the location of White Marsh Church, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, 1794, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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