Local Church Services Today

[Doco Overboard]

After the services today we had a presentation in the chapel delivered by one of the elders.
I learned the church was erected five years before George Washington became the first President of our nation.
How the church of England regulated the practice of worship. Who the lands grants were issued to and by whom and when.
History just prior to and following the civil war and then into the twentieth century and today in modern times as we know it.
Pretty interesting to me when I thought about the whole of it later on.
Just thought I would go on about it for a minute or two.

 

[outrider58]

Very interesting.

 

[Doco Overboard]

Very interesting.

Thanks Out Rider.
I could see and learned where evidence of the construction methods were verified by the way they were performed.
Like tool marks from saws, joining for the timbers and differing nails used in construction from different periods of our nations early times all the way through the Victorian period.
Forged nails and machine made taxed nails and what not from the old country.
Milk paint, a crude blue print for layout carved into one of the corner beams just like a cornerstone
They came from all over to check it out and learn/ witness the historical aspects for the knowledge keeping and preservation efforts for elsewhere if there was a need.
Services are every other Sunday and the meeting house next door is used more frequently for gatherings.
Theirs going to be chicken and dumplings with Heroes Haven folks towards the end of February which will be a nice thing for all I think.

 

[welder516]

We are in an old movie theater in Glen Burnie (burnout) little to no history. Neat that your church is standing and thriving hopefully for many more years to come.

 

[outrider58]

Thanks Out Rider.
I could see and learned where evidence of the construction methods were verified by the way they were performed.
Like tool marks from saws, joining for the timbers and differing nails used in construction from different periods of our nations early times all the way through the Victorian period.
Forged nails and machine made taxed nails and what not from the old country.
Milk paint, a crude blue print for layout carved into one of the corner beams just like a cornerstone
They came from all over to check it out and learn/ witness the historical aspects for the knowledge keeping and preservation efforts for elsewhere if there was a need.
Services are every other Sunday and the meeting house next door is used more frequently for gatherings.
Theirs going to be chicken and dumplings with Heroes Haven folks towards the end of February which will be a nice thing for all I think.

I've always been interested in archeology. Modern archeology always adds a particular touch to the subject. All my fore bearers are antebellum civil war, so I am envious of folks who can trace their lineage back to the birth of our nation. I love crawling around in old American 'ruins'. I sit back and wonder, how much history these old barns and farm houses have witnessed. If those old timbers could only talk.

 

[hodgepodge]

In my Presbyterian church this morning, we sang the theme song from Davey and Goliath.

A Mighty Fortress made my formerly Lutheran heart glad!

(The building was built around 2000. There's no history.)

 

[Blacksmith101]

Some additional history also on the DelMarVa peninsula.

Just up the road from me is Rock United Presbyterian Church founded in 1720 the current church was built in 1761 and it was remodeled in 1844 and again in 1900, the church still has no electric service.

Link to their webpage:

A Presbyterian Church in Elkton, MD

Rock Presbyterian Church Elkton, MD

www.rockpres.org

Link to the church history published in 1872:

A history of the Rock Presbyterian church in Cecil county, Maryland : Johns, J. H. (John Henry), 1829?-1889 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

39 p. 22 cm

archive.org

Older yet and not far away is the Brick Meetinghouse a Friends (Quaker) meeting house. The land was set aside by William Penn in 1702 and a log meeting house was built in 1709. The log structure was replace with the existing brick section in 1724 and the stone section was added in 1751 the latest cloakroom addition was added in the mid 1800's. There is a lot of history there.

Link to Wikipedia entry:

East Nottingham Friends Meetinghouse - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Link to National Registry of Historic Places Inventory Form (detailed description and pictures):

https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-425.pdf

For thirty some years I have rented a part of a historic bank barn built in 1826, where I board my horse, so I see history every single day.

Link to photograph of the Beers barn as it was in 1926, it's 100th anniversary:

Laura and Jim Beers barn | Hagley Digital Archives

digital.hagley.org

Link to the Maryland Architectural Survey File for the Beers complex which includes the barn:

https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/Cecil/CE-300.pdf