Eastern Shore Chapel
One mile south is Eastern Shore Chapel. The land on which it stands, patented by William Cornick in 1657, was given to Lynnhaven Parish by his heirs. Two wooden buildings occupied the site; the present church was built in 1754. The communion service, which bears the date, 1759, was buried in a hen house, 1861-65, to save it from raiders. The chapel was abandoned in war time but was later reoccupied.
1948 text, presented as a historical document.
Many of these markers have since been replaced or their texts revised. The marker program and its current texts are maintained by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Virginia Department of Historic Resources ↗
John Carter Brown Library, Brown UniversityDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUSGS Historical Topographic Map CollectionUSGS Historical Topographic Map Collection
Marker data: Virginia Department of Conservation and Development, State Historical Markers of Virginia, 6th ed. (1948)
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