Old Stone Church Site

Old Stone Church Site is a Virginia historical marker in Leesburg, Loudoun County, dedicated 1989.

Loudoun County · dedicated 1989 · Business Rte. 7, just west of Business Rte. 15 (King Street), Leesburg

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One block north on Cornwall Street is the site of the first Methodist-owned property in America. Lot 50 was deeded to the Methodist Society in Leesburg on May 11, 1766. In 1778, the Sixth American Conference of Methodists met there, the first such gathering in Virginia. At least two church buildings occupied the site before 1902, when the "Old Stone Church" was demolished. The churchyard is maintained as a national historic shrine of the United Methodist Church.

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