<p>Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house and national historic district located at 1501 Old Wilmington Road in Hockessin, New Castle County, in the USA state of Delaware. The district encompasses three contributing buildings and one contributing site. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first meeting in the area was held at the home of William Cox, in Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle County in about 1730, but not regularly established until 1737. Some of the first members were Cox, John Baldwin and Henry and John Dixon. The name Hockessin was given from an Indian village formerly in the area.</p><br>
<p>While unsupported by documentation it is believed that the meetinghouse operated as the only school in the area from the late 1700s to the early 1800s. The meetinghouse was also the site of a British troop campsite on September 9, 1777 while troops under the command of Lord Cornwallis headed towards the Battle of the Brandywine.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The meeting house was built in 1738 and enlarged in 1745. In 1973 it was a one-story, white plastered stone building with a gable roof.</p><br>
<p>Marshallton United Methodist Church is a historic United Methodist church located at 1105 Stanton Road in Marshallton, New Castle County, Delaware. The original portion was built in 1886 as a one-room, 30-foot by 50-foot center-aisle plan frame structure with a gable roof. It sits on a foundation of "Brandywine Granite", a commonly found local building stone. In 1922, a 30-foot by 45-foot gabled frame addition was added on the east side of the original building. At the same time, Gothic arched commemorative stained glass windows and a bell tower were added. A three-story brick educational building and fellowship hall were added between 1949 and 1957.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Mill Creek Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house located near Newark, New Castle County, Delaware.</p><br>
<p>It was built as a one-story meeting house for 33 Friends from Mill Creek Hundred who, in 1838, had obtained permission to hold their worship services separately from the New Garden Monthly Meeting. It was built as a stone, one-story meeting house in 1840 and 1841.</p><br>
<p>Through 1915 a meeting for worship was held each week. From 1915 to about 1930 meetings were held once a month. Only a single meeting was held each year from 1930 to 1954. After 1954 the meeting become more active and it now holds a weekly meeting for worship.</p><br>
<p>The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. A wrought iron fence encircles a cemetery to the east. (A.K.A Mormon conjugals.)</p><br>
<p>Old Drawyers Church is a historic Presbyterian church on USA 13 near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. The congregation was founded by Dutch and Swedish immigrants, though by the time the church was built the congregation was largely made up of Scottish immigrants.</p><br>
<p>It was built between 1769 and 1773, and is a two-story, five bay brick building in the Georgian style. It features an elaborate Georgian doorway and gable roof. The interior features an ornate soundingboard, suspended over the open pulpit.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Old First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. It was begun in 1868, dedicated in 1872, and is one story rectangular stone structure with a two bay facade and a tower. The tower features a steep gable roof with flared eaves and a louvered belfry. Architects Dixon and Davis of Baltimore designed this stone building in the Gothic Revival style. The Wilmington Daily Commercial publicized its construction, describing blue granite and brownstone mined from Chestnut Hill, a steeple soaring 100 feet high and twenty-foot interior ceilings. A large, pointed-arch, stained-glass window dominates the north wall facing Main Street. Narrow, pointed-arch windows with pastel, diamond-shaped panes line the east and west walls between exterior stone buttresses. The slate roof has alternating rows of square and scalloped shingles. In 1967, the building was sold by the First Presbyterian Church to the University of Delaware. The University of Delaware renamed it after J. Fenton Daugherty, professor of physics from 1929 to 1945 and dean of men from 1945 to 1951. Several generations of students knew it as "The Abbey," a cafeteria-style dining facility. In 1995, as part of the new student center project, the University restored the sanctuary and reopened it as a "quiet" study lounge adjoining Trabant University Center.</p><br>
<p>Daugherty Hall has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1982. It has been incorporated into the University&#39;s Trabant University Center.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Old Fort Church is an historic African-American Methodist church located on Old Baltimore Pike in Christiana, New Castle County, Delaware. The church was originally built on Schoolbell Road  near Christiana in 1850. In 1897, it was dismantled and reconstructed on its present site. It is a one-story, three bay by three bay, gable-roofed brick structure. It features modified lancet-type windows that illuminate the main block. The gable ends have various types of decorative wood shingles painted dark green.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Old St. Paul&#39;s Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located on High Street in Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. It was designed by noted Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan and built in 1851–1852. It is a two-story, brick building in the Greek Revival style. It measures 45 feet by 65 feet and has a low-pitched gable roof. The building ceased use as a church in 1955 and houses a local museum and cultural center.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Old Union Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church located 0.2 mi north of Blackbird Crossroads on USA 13 in Townsend, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1847, and is a two-story, brick meeting house measuring 40 feet by 60 feet. It is surrounded by a cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was organized in 1789.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Otts Chapel  is a historic chapel in New Castle County, Delaware, located roughly halfway between Newark, Delaware and Elkton, Maryland on Ott&#39;s Chapel Road.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1871 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The chapel was built by Stephen Ott, a local farmer who also hosted nondenominational prayer meetings at his house. After the meetings grew too large, Ott built the chapel with the help of his neighbors in 1871. Ott conducted prayer meetings and Sunday school at the chapel until his death in 1875, after which his wife Jane took over until 1881. The chapel was later run by George A. Blake from 1889 to 1910, and has continued to host nondenominational prayer meetings and Sunday school since.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Ott&#39;s Chapel is a small, one-story frame building with clapboard siding and a gable roof, typical of the rural church architecture of 19th-century Delaware. The chapel is one bay wide by three bays deep, with a gable-roofed front porch, and stands on a rubble stone foundation. The interior of the building consists of a single room with a high ceiling and elaborate pressed tin ornamentation.</p><br>
<p>Red Clay Creek Presbyterian Church, also known as McKennans Church, is a historic Presbyterian church located at Mill Creek and McKennans Church Roads near Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1853, and is a two-story, stuccoed stone structure. It was originally rectangular in plan, but additions have given it an irregular cruciform shape. It features a colonnaded porch in the Greek Revival style with a fanlight and an enclosed vestibule. The south wall incorporates a date stone from the original church building, marked "WM 1761".</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>St. Georges Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located on Main Street in St. Georges, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1844, and is a one-story, brick, temple form, Greek Revival style building with a frame steeple. The main block measures 43 feet, 6 inches wide by 77 feet, 8 inches long, and sits on an uncoursed fieldstone foundation. The roof is supported by a Town lattice truss.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is located in the North Saint Georges Historic District.</p><br>
<p>St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church at 200 E. Main Street in Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. The first congregants of the church were Irish immigrants. The church was dedicated on June 24, 1883, replacing the previous structure built in the late 18th century, after the floor collapsed on Christmas Eve of 1880. The church building is a one-story rectangular brick building with a central tower and three bays on the south front facade.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It is maintained and directed by the parish of St. John the Baptist-Holy Angels which houses another worship site at 82 Possum Park Road in Newark.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s Church is a historic Roman Catholic church at 17 W. Cochran Street in Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1883–84, and is a small rectangular frame building in the vernacular Gothic Revival style. It has a steeply pitched gable roof with projecting eaves, German siding, belfry, and a two-story rear wing, added between 1885 and 1900. It is currently known as the Holy Hill Worship Center.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph on the Brandywine, originally Saint Josephs Church until St. Josephs Church – Wilmington was built in 1947, is a parish of the Catholic Church in Greenville, Delaware, United States, in the Diocese of Wilmington. It is a historic parish church complex and national historic district located on Old Church Road. Since 2002 its old convent building has housed the diocesan archives, with records going back two centuries. It is also the home parish of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden.</p><br>
<h2>Campus</h2><br>
<p>The complex encompasses four buildings as well as a large parish cemetery. The main church is a stuccoed stone structure, painted yellow, with the pedimented gable of the facade pierced by the church&#39;s steeple. The other buildings consist of a rectory, convent, and former school.</p><br>
<p>The school was opened in 1853 and was originally staffed by the Sisters of St. Joseph, and later by the Order of St. Francis in 1887.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>While there was a strong Catholic presence in the Wilmington area since 1813, Catholic masses were relegated to traveling priests at private homes and in the local manufacturing mills. Irish mills workers began petitioning the Diocese of Philadelphia for their own church in the region starting in the late 1830s. They were supported in their efforts by the Du Pont family, who contributed financial assets and political pressure to the establishment of the parish. The original church of St. Joseph was built in February 1841 by the Duponts for Irish and Italian Catholic workers at the C.I.DuPont de Nemours & Co. The land was originally granted by Charles I. du Pont, who also served on the original board of Trustees along with Alfred du Pont, Henry du Pont, Peter N. Brennan, Edward Dougherty, Charles Dougherty, and Michael Dougherty. The church itself was dedicated the following winter in December 1842 by Francis Kenrick, Bishop of Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>Additions were made to the church structure in 1848 under Fr. John Walsh to accommodate 550 parishioners. In 1853, a house on the campus burned down and was rebuilt with the assistance of Amelia du Pont, who converted the building into a convent, thereafter inviting the Sisters of St. Joseph to occupy the grounds and open a parochial school through the parish. The parish school, which originally occupied the church basement, was moved in 1855 into its own building.</p><br>
<p>The parish house was destroyed in 1866 during a fire originating from the roof. The school was also shut down during this period as the Sisters of St. Joseph were recalled by James Frederick Wood, Archbishop of Philadelphia. The school would re-open under the direction of the sisters of the Order of St. Francis, as well as lay teachers from the parish. It would remain in operation under the sisters until the spring of 1972, when it was permanently shut down due to decreased attendance. The sisters have since vacated the campus to attend to their educational social mission elsewhere. Additional repairs and alterations to the church were made in 1878, 1941 and 1950, so much so that the present form displays very little of the original 1841 church structure. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, a marker was placed on the campus in 2016 by the State of Delaware.</p><br>
<h2>Rectors</h2><br>
<p>Rev. Bernard E. McCabe, OSA: 1841–1842, previously built St. Malachi&#39;s Church in Coatesville (d. 1857) (killed after falling asleep while reading with a candle)</p><br>
<p>Rev. John Frost: 1842</p><br>
<p>Rev. Daniel Magorian: 1843–1846</p><br>
<p>Rev. John S. Walsh: 1846–1867</p><br>
<p>Rev. John Scanlan: 1867–1869</p><br>
<p>Rev. George J. Kelly: 1869–1887</p><br>
<p>Rev. Dennis J. Flynn (Assistant Pastor) 1883–1885, Later President of Mount St. Mary&#39;s College</p><br>
<p>Rev. Edward Henchy SJ: 1887–1893, formerly President of Loyola College in Maryland</p><br>
<p>Rev. Peter Donaghy: 1893, a native of Ireland and Gaelic-speaking priest, previously Assistant Pastor</p><br>
<p>Rev. John D. Carly: 1893–1895</p><br>
<p>Rev. George S. Bradford: 1895</p><br>
<p>Rev. William J. Bermingham OP: 1895–1900</p><br>
<p>Rev. William J. Scott: 1900–1926 (d. 1932)</p><br>
<p>Rev. Martin McHale Ryan: 1926–1933</p><br>
<p>Msgr. Patrick A. Brennan: 1933–1946 (d. 1950)</p><br>
<p>Msgr. Francis X. Fitzpatrick: 1946–1950, later Vicar of St. Peter&#39;s Church – New Castle (d. 1972)</p><br>
<p>Rev. Henry J. Dreyer: 1950–1966 (d. 1969)</p><br>
<p>Rev. John L. Noonan SSJ: 1952–? (Assistant Pastor)</p><br>
<p>Msgr. Henry I. Foltz: 1966–1977</p><br>
<p>Msgr. Paul J. Schierse, Jr.: 1977–1992, Canon Lawyer and Chancellor of the Diocese of Wilmington (d. 1998)</p><br>
<p>Rev. Peter P. Harney: 1990–1995 (Assistant Pastor)</p><br>
<p>Rev. Stephen J. Connell, Jr.: 1992–1997; (Assistant Pastor) 1962–1963</p><br>
<p>Rev. Joseph Wharton: (Assistant Pastor) 1994–1997</p><br>
<p>Msgr. Thomas Cini: 1997–1998, Previously Principal of St. Marks High School and St. Elizabeths High School</p><br>
<p>Rev. William Mathesius: (Assistant Pastor) 1997–1998</p><br>
<p>Rev. David F. Kelley: 1998–1999</p><br>
<p>Msgr. Joseph F. Rebman: 1999–2021</p><br>
<p>Rev. John O. Barres: (Assistant Pastor) 2001–?</p><br>
<p>Rev. Brian Lewis, (Assistant Pastor) 2018–2019</p><br>
<p>Rev. Christopher R. Coffiey, (Assistant Pastor) 2019–2020</p><br>
<p>Rev. Glenn Evers, (Assistant Pastor) 2020–2021</p><br>
<p>Msgr. John P. Hopkins: 2021–Present</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>Joseph R. Biden Sr., (1915–2002): Father of Joe Biden</p><br>
<p>Catherine Eugenia Finnegan Biden, (1917–2010): Mother of Joe Biden</p><br>
<p>Joseph R. Biden III, (1969–2015): 44th Attorney General of Delaware and son of Joe Biden and Neilia Biden</p><br>
<p>Naomi Christina Biden, (1971–1972): Daughter of Joe Biden and Neilia Biden</p><br>
<p>Neilia Hunter Biden, (1942–1972): First wife of Joe Biden</p><br>
<p>John McMahon, (1867–1954): professional baseball player for the Philadelphia Athletics and Baltimore Orioles</p><br>
<p>Joseph Walsh, (1930–2014): Delaware Supreme Court Justice</p><br>
<p>Margaret Gwenver, (1926–2010): Stage and Soap Opera Actress</p><br>
<p>St. Thomas Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 21 South Main Street in Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1843–45 and designed by noted architect Richard Upjohn. It is a one-story, three bay wide brick structure built of brick with stucco facing and a gable roof. It features a 35-foot entrance tower, added in 1866, and is in the Gothic Revival style. In 1956 the building was deconsecrated when the parish moved to a larger church. It has since been bought, restored, and renovated by the University of Delaware, installing a 1,234 pipe organ in the process. The building is now used as a music recital and event hall by the university.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Episcopal parish of St. Thomas was established in Newark in 1843, and a lot at the corner of Elkton Road and Delaware Avenue was purchased for the new church at a cost of $70. Construction started in August of that year and the new building was consecrated on February 25, 1845. The construction cost was approximately $3,825. The church is thought to have been designed by Richard Upjohn, although the available documentation does not completely confirm this. The church was enlarged in 1866, adding a chancel and the 35 ft entrance tower. The present stained glass windows were added later in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>By the 1950s, St. Thomas Parish had outgrown the old church, moving to a new site on South College Avenue. The old church was deconsecrated and served as Newarks public library from 1956 to 1974, but eventually this tenant too outgrew the building. It was later used for storage. The vacant church was eventually purchased by the University of Delaware in 1996 and refurbished to fix extensive structural damage due to leaks and neglect. Taking advantage of the churchs acoustics, the university turned it into a recital hall equipped with a custom-built Dobson pipe organ and restored 1920 Steinway piano. It was renamed Bayard Sharp Hall after a university donor.</p><br>
<p>Welsh Tract Old School Baptist Church is a historic Primitive Baptist church, located on Welsh Tract Road in Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built by Welsh settlers in 1746 and is a simple rectangular brick building with a wood-shingled jerkinhead roof.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Baptist movement had gained significant ground in England and Wales during the religious turmoil that embroiled the British Isles through the 17th century. Although the Tolerance Act was passed by the English Parliament in 1689 in an attempt to end the religious strife, by the end of that century, new efforts were being made by the English Crown to reinforce the hegemony of the Anglican church over all "Dissenter" groups in the realm. In the spring of 1701, sixteen Baptists, in the counties of Pembroke and Carmarthen, South Wales, resolved to go to America. They formed themselves into a church, with Thomas Griffith, one of their number, as Pastor. They embarked at Milford Haven in June, 1701, arriving in Philadelphia September, 8th, the same year. Local Baptist leaders advised them to join an established congregation nearby along the Pennepeck Creek.</p><br>
<p>The immigrant group settled there for about a year and a half. During that time they kept together as a distinct church, held meetings at each other&#39;s residences, and observed the ordinances of Christ in a manner they had brought with them from Wales. In the two years, twenty-one persons were added to their number.</p><br>
<p>The ceremony of laying on of hands was the principal, if not sole, means of introducing singing, imposition of hands, church covenants, etc., among Welsh Baptists, and they maintained that practice in Pennsylvania. But not without some difficulty, as appears from the following history translated from the Welsh Tract book:</p><br>
<p>Because of the discomfort created with the other Baptists in Pennypack over the Welsh practice, the Welsh Baptists soon decided to seek a new home. In 1703, they purchased 30,000 acres in New Castle County, Delaware, near what is now known as Newark, Delaware, deeded by William Penn in the 1680s to three Baptists: David Evans, William Davis, and William Willis. Known as the Welsh Tract, it included Iron Hill and reached all the way to its northern slopes, now part of Interstate I-95. A small meeting-house was erected on the property, and the community became known as the "Emigrant Church", in part because of the then-unusual practices of laying of hands and singing of psalms.</p><br>
<p>Members of the church were dismissed to form other Baptist churches of like faith and order in Delaware and elsewhere, including the London Tract, Duck Creek, Wilmington, Cow Marsh, Mispillion, and Pedee (South Carolina) Baptist churches. Its practices became standard practice for Baptist churches throughout the Middle States. Paul Palmer, founder of the "Palmer" branch of the Free Will Baptists, attended Welsh Tract Baptist Church in the 1700s.</p><br>
<h2>Division between Old School and New School Baptists</h2><br>
<p>Welsh Tract Baptist Church continued in union with the Philadelphia Baptist Association of which it was a co-founder church until the church was dismissed from the association to form the Delaware River Old School Baptist Association in 1836 under the pastorate of Elder Samuel Trott. The Old School Baptists separated themselves from the majority of Baptist churches in America who formed the Triennial Convention in 1814 due to what the Old School Baptists considered novel practices not found in the New Testament regarding mission societies, bible societies, Sunday Schools, ministerial education, revival meetings, and the like. This rift finally led to a full division in 1832 with the Black Rock Declaration of Principles.</p><br>
<p>Elder Trott, according to the Brief History of Old Welsh Tract Church published in 1903 is quoted as saying:</p><br>
<p>We receive Christ as our pattern, hence we do not walk in the observance of many things which have been introduced among the Baptists generally, and received as great importance in advancing the cause of religion, &c. We desire to keep in His footsteps, believing it to be the safest path. We rely on His wisdom and power to gather in His elect and extend the knowledge of His salvation.</p><br>
<p>The history goes on to say:</p><br>
<p>In the Circular Letter in 1832, he condemns missions, salaried ministries and Theological Seminaries. Elder Thomas Barton in 1832 writes: "We hope none of us are prepared to adopt the invitation of Jehu: "Come, see my zeal for the Lord of Hosts," but with humility would acknowledge our shortcomings; we know that the work of salvation is of God, and why He does not convert more sinners among us we leave to Him". In 1836 the association refused by vote to receive into fellowship persons baptized by those who are engaged in the new-fangled systems of the day. In 1856, for the first time, the association was called in the Minutes, "The Delaware Old School Baptist Association."</p><br>
<p>The church continues to have meetings every second Sunday of the month. Elder Robert Lackey is the present pastor.</p><br>
<p>The church has no official website, but members and friends have websites (Facebook, YouTube, and a Blog) that promote the doctrines and faith of the church. There is also a publishing company devoted to Old School Baptist principles - Welsh Tract Publications.</p><br>
<p>The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at McClellandville, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1854, and is a frame, one story, one bay by three bay, gable-roofed Greek Revival-style building. It was sheathed in weatherboard and featured decorative wood shingles on the facade and corner pilasters.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>White Clay Creek Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located near Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. The current structure was built in 1855, and is a two-story brick structure, nearly as tall  as it is wide . The building measures 63 feet deep. The exterior features brick pilasters and tall stained glass windows. A 1996 addition to the front of the building contains an elevator to the second floor sanctuary and is topped by a steeple. It was preceded by a structure built in 1752. The church was organized as early as 1709 to serve Scotch-Irish Presbyterians at White Clay Creek. The original White Clay Creek Presbyterian Church was built in 1721 about a mile north on the NW Corner of Dewalt Rd and Old Coach Rd.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>All Saints Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 18 Olive Avenue, Lewes and Rehoboth Hundred in Rehoboth Beach, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in 1893 for the summer services of an Episcopal congregation. It is a one-story structure constructed of hand-molded brick, measuring 100 feet by 30 feet. It features board-and-batten wainscotting, fishscale shingled gable ends, ribbon windows, and a low-pitched gable roof in the Arts and Crafts style. The church was renovated after a fire in 1938. It is joined with St. Georges Chapel, Lewes in the Episcopal Parish of All Saints’ Church & St. George&#39;s Chapel.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Blackwater Presbyterian Church was a historic Presbyterian church building located near Clarksville, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in 1767 and rebuilt in 1893. It was a small, frame chapel sheathed in clapboard and measuring 35 feet by 30 feet. It featured a portico supported by a Victorian style bracket. It was the oldest Presbyterian church building in Southern Delaware. The congregation was abolished in October 1921.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. In the 1970s the church was restored by the Colonel Armwell Long Chapter the Daughters of the American Revolution. In May 2018 the church, which was structurally unsound, was demolished.</p><br>
<p>According to official state sources:</p><br>
<p>Many of the early settlers of this region, then a part of Maryland, were Presbyterians who had been denied their freedom of worship. For many years local Presbyterians were forced to travel a great distance to the nearest church. In 1763, a congregation was organized in this area by Reverend Charles Tennent, the charismatic son of William Tennent, founder of Princeton University. Services were held in the homes of members until 1767 when the present Blackwater Presbyterian Church was constructed. Over time the travel conditions faced by many members resulted in the formation of separate churches in the growing communities of Ocean View and Frankford. By the late 19th century regular services at Blackwater had been discontinued. Occasional meetings were held until 1921, when the church organization was formally abolished. Since 1949 the property has been managed by a Trust established by the Tunnell family, who have been active supporters of the church since its founding.</p><br>
<p>Cool Spring Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church building located near Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in 1854, and is on the site of two previous church buildings that served the congregation dating back to its establishment in 1726. It is a one-story, frame structure, three bays deep, in a rural Greek Revival style. It sits on a brick foundation and has a gable roof. It features a simple pedimented portico supported by two Doric order columns. The churchyard was officially granted to the congregation in 1737 by Governor Thomas Penn.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Coolspring Church Sign.jpgChurch sign</p><br>
<p>Coolspring Church Interior.jpgInside of the church</p><br>
<p>Harmony Church is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at Millsboro, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in 1891, and is a one-story, wood-frame building covered with asbestos siding and in the Late Gothic Revival style. It has a two-story wing and sits on a rock-faced, concrete block foundation. It features a two-story crenellated tower. The congregation was organized in 1818. The Indian Mission Church was formed from Harmony Church after the hiring of an African American minister.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Indian Mission Church is a historic Methodist church located in Millsboro, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in 1921, and is a one-story, wood-frame building covered with clapboard siding and in the Late Gothic Revival style. It features a two-story hipped roof tower and lancet windows. The congregation was organized in 1881 from the Harmony Church after the strongly Native American families of the Nanticoke community separated after the hiring of an African American minister.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Indian Mission School, also known as the Nanticoke Indian Center, is a historic school building located in Millsboro, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in about 1948, after the original school was destroyed by fire. It is a one-story, stuccoed masonry building with a gable roof. It features a concrete block covered entrance. The school was organized after school reforms of the early 20th century mandated that the children of the strongly Native American families of the Nanticoke be placed in the same schools as African-American students.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Lewes Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church building located at 100 Kings Highway in Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in 1832, as a frame meeting house measuring 45 feet by 37 feet. In 1869, the church was renovated to add a number of a Gothic Revival style features and the addition of a chancel with Gothic windows. In 1886–1887, the tower and belfry were added and two massive Corinthian order columns were added to the interior. In 1931, the church acquired its Colonial Revival style front door.</p><br>
<p>The Lewes Presbyterian congregation was organized in 1692, and are the second oldest Presbyterian congregation in Delaware. The church is located on the site of the original 1727 brick church, which burned in 1871. Burials in the adjacent churchyard include two Delaware governors David Hall (1752–1817) and Ebe W. Tunnell (1844–1917) and congressman Robert G. Houston (1867–1946) and John W. Houston (1814–1896).</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Lewes Presbyterian Church is a member of the denomination The Covenant Order of Evangelicals, also known as ECO. It is also a member of Heritage Presbytery.</p><br>
<p>Prince Georges Chapel is a historic Episcopal chapel of ease located near Dagsboro, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in 1755 as a chapel-of-ease for St. Martins Church, Worcester Parish, Maryland. Churches built to serve the outlying areas of a parish where it was difficult for people to travel to the main church were given a chapel-of-ease designation. On June 30, 1757, the completed chapel was received by the vestry, dedicated, and named "Prince Georges Chapel" for Englands Prince George, later George III of the United Kingdom. It is a small, shingled structure. A transept and chancel were added about 1763, but these have been removed. The interior features a vaulted ceiling of heart-pine, timbered pine pillars. The State of Delaware purchased the property in 1967 and renovated the building.</p><br>
<p>The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials in church&#39;s cemetery</h2><br>
<p>General John Dagworthy, namesake of Dagsboro, Revolutionary War veteran</p><br>
<p>St. Georges Chapel is a historic Episcopal chapel located near Angola, Sussex County, Delaware on the Indian River Hundred. It was built in 1794, and is a one-story brick structure measuring 42 feet by 32 feet. It has a brick tower at the southwest corner, built in 1955, and features a restored Palladian window. The original furnishings were removed in 1850 and the roof replaced in 1882 with a steep gable roof. The chapel was restored in 1966. It is joined with All Saints Episcopal Church in the Episcopal Parish of All Saints’ Church & St. Georges Chapel.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located near Bridgeville, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in 1885, and is a two-story, frame church building in the Gothic Revival style. It has a gable roof and corner pilasters with lancet insets. Attached to the church is a Sunday School annex.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Bell Farmhouse is a historic home located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. The farmhouse was built about 1845 and is a two-story, gable-roofed brick building with an original two-story ell in the rear. It features a massive Doric columned wrap-around porch. Also on the property is a smokehouse, carriage house, and shed.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Building at 28–34½ Academy Street is a historic apartment building located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1888 and is a -story frame structure with 16 bays at the east main facade. It was built as an eight unit row house.</p><br>
<p>It is commonly known as "Skid Row" to Newark residents and is a popular housing location for University of Delaware students. For many years, twice a year, a major music event named "Skidfest" was held in the rear yard of the structure.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Chemistry Building at the University of Arkansas is a building on the University&#39;s campus in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Although there was already a chemistry building on campus, by 1925 it had become too small. There were plans to build a new building by the Arkansas General Assembly in 1927, and was scheduled to be built in 1931. However, the Great Depression delayed these plans.</p><br>
<p>In January 1934, $1,165,000 was made available for the construction of both a new chemistry building and Vol Walker Library. These funds came from the Public Works Administration, and not the Arkansas legislature.</p><br>
<p>Opened in December 1935, the building housed the chemistry, zoology, geology, philosophy, and psychology departments. Eventually, the growing University forced all of these departments elsewhere except for chemistry. In 1992, the University added another chemistry building adjacent to this one, connected with a skywalk.</p><br>
<p>George Evans House, owned by the University of Delaware, is a historic home located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. It was completed in 1863 and is a -story, brick structure with a stone foundation, T-shaped plan, and cross-gable roof. The main facade is three bays, featuring a one-bay portico supported by Doric order columns. Its builder, George Gillespie Evans served as Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the University of Delaware from 1856 to 1903.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>John Evans House, also known as Raub Hall at the University of Delaware, is a historic home located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. The first section was built about 1800. The house in its present form is a two-story, gable roofed brick structure measuring six bays across. The original structure was expanded during the 19th and early 20th centuries to its present size. After 1888, it was converted to commercial use. In 1947, it was purchased by the University of Delaware and renovated in the 1960s for office space.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Wilmington Trust Company Bank is a historic bank building in Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1926 and is a one-story, rectangular plan brick structure with a cast concrete / cement Neoclassical facade. It was built by the Farmer&#39;s Trust Company of Newark, which was acquired in 1952 by the Wilmington Trust Company. It is owned today by M&T Bank, which bought Wilmington Trust in 2008.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Ohio Theatre is a historic movie theater in downtown Lima, Ohio, United States. Built in 1927,</p><br>
<p>A movie palace constructed for the Schine Corporation, In addition to its original purpose, the Ohio Theatre has served to host stage performances by a wide range of entertainers. Individuals as well known as Bob Hope have graced the theater&#39;s ornate interior.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, the Ohio Theatre was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of a collection of buildings designated the "Lima Multiple Resource Area." Designated as historic sites because of their architecture, these buildings were deemed worthy of historic preservation primarily because of the city&#39;s architectural history: although Lima had once been home to a large number of architecturally valuable buildings, an unusually large percentage of them had been destroyed or abandoned to ruin.</p><br>
<p>The Horn Mound is a Native American mound in eastern Pickaway County, Ohio, United States. Located near the village of Tarlton, the mound sits along a stream at a significant distance from any other prehistoric sites. It is believed to have been built by people of the Adena culture, who constructed many burial mounds and other ceremonial earthworks in prehistoric Ohio. Although erosion by the nearby stream has the potential of damaging the mound, it appears to be virtually undisturbed by human exploration. Because of its pristine state, the Horn Mound is a likely archaeological site, and for this reason it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Asbury United Methodist Church, founded in 1836 as Asbury Chapel, is the oldest black United Methodist church in Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<p>Located on the corner of 11th and K Streets Northwest, it was placed on the District of Columbia Register of Historic Places on November 1, 1986. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. In 2003, the National Park Service approved the listing of Asbury on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Founded in 1836, the church was a pioneer of African-American Methodism in Washington, D.C., and of social history through abolition, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and the Civil Rights movement. It is the city&#39;s oldest African-American church to remain on its original site. A new building on the same site was completed in 1870. The current building was designed by Clarence Lowell Handing and built in 1915–1916 in the English Gothic Revival architectural style.</p><br>
<p>In the 1920s, the building had alterations by African American architect, William Wilson Cooke.</p><br>
<p>In December 2020, the congregations Black Lives Matter banner was burned during an event for President Donald Trump, an action the congregations senior pastor described as "reminiscent of cross burnings". In January 2021, Enrique Tarrio, chairman of the Proud Boys, was arrested in relation to the incident.</p><br>
<p>On July 15, 2021, the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced Asbury United Church as one of 40 sites and organizations to receive $3 million in grants from the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. The grant is to be used for repairs to the church’s wood windows and bell tower masonry, as well as repointing and cleaning of its stone facade.</p><br>
<p>Eldbrooke United Methodist Church is a historic church building located at 4100 River Road NW in the Tenleytown neighborhood Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first church on this site, called Mount Zion Methodist, was established in 1840, in the vicinity of Tennally Town, a farming village, approximately three miles north of Georgetown, on the Rockville Pike. The original structure may have been rebuilt after the Civil War. In 1899, the building was renovated and expanded, and the name was changed to Eldbrooke, after Aquila Eld and Philip Brooke, who were among the founders.</p><br>
<p>The Spanish Colonial Revival building, designed by Howard Wright Cutler, was built in 1926. Descendants of the Eld family were still present in the 1960s. After church membership had declined thru the latter 1900s, responsibility for ministry was assigned to Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church in the 1990s, and ministry was discontinued in early 2000s. The property was purchased by The City Church in 2008.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places and District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites in 2008.</p><br>
<p>First African New Church  is a historic church, located at 2105-07 10th St., Northwest, Washington, D.C., USA, in the Cardozo-Shaw neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1896 on a design by Paul J. Pelz, for the Swedenborgian-Colored congregation. In 1903, the Peoples Seventh Day Adventist moved in. They changed their name to Peoples Seventh Day Baptist Independent Church, in 1937.</p><br>
<p>It was vacant in 1970.</p><br>
<p>It was designated a DC Historic Landmark in 2001 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 29, 2009.</p><br>
<p>Architect and developer Sorg Associates bought the building for $1,300,000, in 2003, and announced plans to develop 39 condominiums on the parcel.</p><br>
<p>In 2016, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced plans to convert the building into one of eight facilities for homeless around the District.</p><br>
<p>Fletcher Chapel, also known as Church of God and the Saints of Christ Church, is a historic chapel located in Northwest, Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1854 by the McKendree Methodist Episcopal Church to start a new congregation known as Fletcher Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church. The building was purchased by the Church of God and the Saints of Christ Church in 1904 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Immaculate Conception Catholic Church is a historic Catholic parish in the United States in Washington, D.C. Located at 1315 8th Street Northwest, the church, school, rectory, and convent were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The cornerstone of the original church, located on a lot near the corner of 8th and N Streets took place on October 30, 1864. Martin John Spalding, Archbishop of Baltimore, dedicated the new church on July 2, 1865, the Feast of the Visitation. The parish rapidly outgrew this structure, however, and on November 13, 1870, the cornerstone for the present Gothic Revival church was laid, with construction commencing the following year. Dedicated in 1874, at which time the old structure became the parish and school hall, the church was refurbished in 1939 and 1962–63.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The construction of the church was finished on October 30, 1864. Father Reverend Patrick F. McCarthy was the first Pastor of the church. Before Immaculate Conception Church was established, St. Patricks Church built in 1794, was the first and only parish in the city. St. Patricks was becoming overcrowded and to better suit its members, Immaculate Conception Church was founded in the Shaw neighborhood. Back to the beginning of the eighteenth century, most parishioners of the church were either Catholics who were original residents in this area or other immigrating Irish, and worshiping weekly was a part of their tradition.</p><br>
<p>The land of Immaculate Conception Church originally belonged to William Jones, and it was deeded by him on October 6, 1864 for $16,000, with $8,000 paid up front. It can be seen that the church was under the construction even before the land was deeded. Father J. Walter began the project during the summer of 1864. The cornerstone was laid on Sunday, October 30, 1864. Construction was completed the following summer of 1865. On July 2, the feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin, the Most Reverend Martin J. Spalding, Archbishop of Baltimore, dedicated the new church assisted by Father Walter and Rev P. F. McCarthy of St. Patrick&#39;s.</p><br>
<p>The landowner&#39;s desire was to make this land a place for church and school. At the meantime, a school was also built associated with the church and it was named as Immaculate Conception Catholic School. The building was finished construction in 1908. Due to the creation and establishment of a school, the number of parishioners grew by over 2,000. As a result, the Immaculate Conception Church and School could not hold its growing population.</p><br>
<p>The developments of the area in the two periods (1800–1850 and 1850–1880) are strongly related. Before 1850, when St. Patricks Church was still the only Catholic parish in the city, it benefited the neighborhoods including Shaw. However, parishioners in Shaw had to walk to St. Patricks at 10th and G Streets Northwest. Since there was no Catholic Church in Shaw neighborhood prior to 1850, parishioners in Shaw tended to have their own church as well as a school. The lack of a local Catholic church in Shaw before 1850 really encouraged the establishment of the Immaculate Conception Church in 1860s. “It was located on N Street next to a vacant corner lot 8th and N Streets and was the first structure to be built in the area.” Therefore, it is a very significant landmark in Shaw neighborhood, and it helped the neighborhood build up a reputation.</p><br>
<p>Meeting House of the Friends Meeting of Washington  is a historic Quaker meeting house at 2111 Decatur Place in NW Washington, DC.</p><br>
<p>The Colonial Revival building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Surrounded by embassies, chanceries and military missions, the Meeting House of Friends Meeting of Washington was built in 1930 in a newly developed town house residential area. Twenty years later the building was enlarged on the south side. In 1970, the red brick town house and garden at 2121 Decatur Place, now known as Quaker House, was acquired for additional educational and community activities, and in 2019 the buildings were joined together with a new lobby and main entrance on Decatur Place.</p><br>
<p>The original grey stone structure, an outright gift to the Friends Meeting of Washington from a Rhode Island Quaker, has historical significance in the nation&#39;s capital. It was designed and built particularly to accommodate the then President, Herbert Hoover, a Quaker. The President and his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, worshipped here when in Washington. They attended the first meeting for Worship held January 4, 1931. The First Lady was present at the laying of the cornerstone. Secret Service arrangements were less formidable than now.</p><br>
<p>Of further historic interest, a ground floor room now used as an office has a beamed ceiling of timbers that had been built into the White House in 1814, part of the repair after the British burned Washington. The beams were removed during a later repair and renovation in 1927. The architect, Walter F. Price, located them in a local mill.</p><br>
<p>Most of the exterior of the Meeting House is faced with Foxcroft stone, an unusual, if not unique, facing stone on Washington area buildings. It has a lively grey coloring and a satin-like texture. The Foxcroft stone came from a quarry in Pennsylvania and is no longer available.</p><br>
<p>The grounds were landscaped by the well-known landscape architect, Rose Greeley. The landscaping and the placing of the building were intended to create a miniature park. The grounds of most urban Meeting Houses are enclosed by brick or stone walls which often shield a burial ground. The 2019 renovation completely reconfigured and terraced the west garden space.</p><br>
<p>A special feature of the terrace is a sun dial with the names of Fox, Penn and Woolman cut in stone and the inscription, “I mind the Light, dost Thou?” George Fox was the founder of the Society of Friends in 17th century England; William Penn established the “holy experiment” in Pennsylvania; John Woolman of New Jersey crusaded relentlessly against slavery in the 18th century.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the building is simple and functional. The Meeting Room with benches, about half of them facing each other, is used primarily for Meetings for Worship on Sundays, for weddings, memorial services, business meetings, lecture and other public gatherings. Visitors will note the absence of the usual features of church interiors: altar, pulpit or lectern, organ, choir space, stained glass, ornamentation, memorial tables and so on. None are necessary for worship after the manner of Friends-there is no minister, creed, sacrament, music, nor prescribed ritual. Silence is the basis for worship, although anyone who feels moved to do so may speak. Visitors</p><br>
<p>are always welcome but prepared messages or forum discussions are not appropriate to the Meeting for Worship.</p><br>
<p>A library located on the same floor as the Meeting Room contains an extensive selection of books, pamphlets and periodicals of</p><br>
<p>historical and current interest on the Society of Friends and Quaker social concerns.</p><br>
<p>Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church  is a historic church located at 1518 M Street, N.W., in downtown Washington, D.C. It affiliates with the African Methodist Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation was founded in 1838, as Union Bethel (Metropolitan) A. M. E. Church. In 1880, John W. Stevenson was appointed by Bishop Daniel Payne to be pastor of the church for the purpose of building a new church, which would become Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church. The cornerstone was laid in September, 1881. However, Stevenson&#39;s methods were upsetting to some of his congregation, and Stevenson was removed before the building was finished after asking for a salary that was deemed too high. The new building was dedicated on May 30, 1886 and was constructed by architect George Dearing. According to the church, it is the oldest continuously black-owned property in the original 10-mile-square parcel of the District.</p><br>
<p>President Barack Obama attended services here on Sunday, January 20, 2013, before his second inauguration.</p><br>
<p>A Black Lives Matter banner was stolen from the church and burned during a pro-Trump march on December 12, 2020. Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was later arrested by Washington, D.C. police and charged with one count of destruction of property, a misdemeanor offense. On January 4, 2021, the church filed a lawsuit against both</p><br>
<p>Proud Boys International, LLC, and Tarrio; neither responded and the church sought default judgment against both. In June, 2023, District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Neal E. Kravitz imposed civil penalties of over $1 million on the Proud Boys and four of its members, Tarrio, Joe Biggs, Jeremy Bertino and John Turano. Kravitz said that the four men had engaged in "hateful and overtly racist conduct".</p><br>
<p>Morgan Chapel and Graveyard – also known as Christ Episcopal Church-Bunker Hill – is a historic church in Bunker Hill, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It is the oldest Episcopal church congregation in West Virginia.</p><br>
<p>In 1741 Morgan Morgan, one of West Virginia&#39;s earliest settlers, built the original log church on this site, about halfway between his cabin and the mill. Soon a cemetery was established.</p><br>
<p>The current Greek Revival building was constructed in 1851. Morgan Morgan I, II, III, and IV are all buried in the church cemetery, although the historic marker for Morgan Morgan is over a mile away near the town center and mill. Morgan Morgan&#39;s descendants later founded Morgantown, West Virginia. Also buried in the graveyard is noted American portrait artist John Drinker (1760–1826), a Quaker who may have been a conductor on the Underground Railroad along with his wife Elizabeth and whose former house is also on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>During the American Civil War, both Union and Confederate troops encamped nearby and some in the chapel, as shown by recently uncovered graffiti. The diocese is currently seeking funds for further restoration. The closest local Episcopal parish is now Grace Episcopal Church in Middleway, West Virginia, several miles eastward on the Middleway Pike. Until recently, that parish had used this chapel for at least one worship service each year (in September); other denominations and special events occasionally used it until the restoration commenced.</p><br>
<p>Morgan Chapel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984,</p><br>
<p>Hedges Chapel is a historic non-denominational chapel located at 668 Mountain Lake Road in Hedgesville, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It was built in 1850 and is a 1-story, three-by-two-bay, gable-roofed log building on a fieldstone foundation. It is sheathed in German siding, added in 1885 and topped by a corrugated metal roof. Also on the property is the church cemetery, with approximately 100 burials dating to 1872.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Hedges Chapel Story</h2><br>
<p>In western Berkeley County, West Virginia stands</p><br>
<p>Hedges Chapel. For more than 160 years this one-room wooden structure of</p><br>
<p>simple architecture has been a focus of Christian spirit, faith and</p><br>
<p>comfort. It stands on a small hill overlooking the two-lane country road</p><br>
<p>that leads the congregation to its doors, while its green-shuttered</p><br>
<p>windows keep watch over the cemetery where some of its faithful rest.</p><br>
<p>In the 1840s, the nearest church was six miles away, a</p><br>
<p>difficult trip on dirt roads, especially in rain or snow. Church was a</p><br>
<p>central focus for the community, and local residents began to feel the</p><br>
<p>need for a nearby church of their own. In 1849 several members of the</p><br>
<p>community decided to build a church, and. Mr. John Hedges donated land</p><br>
<p>for the chapel and cemetery. It is for him that the chapel is named.</p><br>
<p>Neighbors cut the trees, donated timber and other materials, and</p><br>
<p>provided their labor. A neighbor who operated a nearby sawmill</p><br>
<p>volunteered to saw and plane the timber for the structure and the pews.</p><br>
<p>Local horses hauled the materials to the building site. Only nails and</p><br>
<p>window glass were purchased; everything else was locally made.</p><br>
<p>Construction began in the winter of 1849, and in 1850, the Hedges Chapel</p><br>
<p>opened. In the chapel&#39;s early days worshipers came to services on foot</p><br>
<p>and on horseback. Later, as the community became more established, the</p><br>
<p>faithful began to arrive in buggies.</p><br>
<p>Hedges Chapel was built as a log structure, although</p><br>
<p>its logs are no longer visible. In 1885 its exterior was covered with</p><br>
<p>white-painted, German-style, wood plank, and its 15-foot-high interior</p><br>
<p>walls were clad in plaster. The original logs remain between the two</p><br>
<p>façades silently supporting the chapel, as they have for over 160 years.</p><br>
<p>Originally the chapel had a simple shingle roof, replaced by a slate</p><br>
<p>roof in 1905 and the current metal roof in 1939. Inside the building the</p><br>
<p>congregation worships on the original pews that were built from planks</p><br>
<p>sawn from local trees in 1850.</p><br>
<p>Hedges Chapel was first established as a Methodist church, the Hedges Stony Lick Run Church. As years passed, chapel</p><br>
<p>membership waxed and waned. In the 1960s and 1970s the chapel was</p><br>
<p>closed, reopened and closed again. Finally, in 1977 Hedges Chapel had</p><br>
<p>fewer than ten active members, and closed its doors seemingly for good.</p><br>
<p>In the 1980s the virtually abandoned building was vandalized and</p><br>
<p>stripped of much of its contents. It seemed less and less likely that</p><br>
<p>the chapel would ever open its doors again. However, faith prevailed</p><br>
<p>over adversity, and, toward the end of the decade the spiritual needs of</p><br>
<p>the area were renewed. In a fortunate coupling, local residents were</p><br>
<p>again in search of a local church, and a number of part-time residents</p><br>
<p>of the new Woods community were in search of a church away from home.</p><br>
<p>In 1988, Reverend Charles Long, then assistant pastor</p><br>
<p>at the Hedgesville United Methodist Church, attempted to revive the old</p><br>
<p>church. Not wanting to see the old chapel waste away, he approached</p><br>
<p>several members of the expanding local community and asked if they would</p><br>
<p>be interested in restarting the old church. He received a very</p><br>
<p>enthusiastic response. Local residents, with the assistance of Reverend</p><br>
<p>Long, received permission from the Methodist Conference to take over</p><br>
<p>the church, under the agreement that it would remain</p><br>
<p>interdenominational.</p><br>
<p>Armed with $3,000 in loans and donations, volunteers</p><br>
<p>began their work with the same spirit that the original founders had</p><br>
<p>shown 160 years earlier. Some rewired the vandalized electrical system,</p><br>
<p>while others completely renovated the chapel&#39;s interior and exterior.</p><br>
<p>Their hard work, dedication, faith and several thousand dollars more in</p><br>
<p>donations infused new life into the old structure. Their efforts came to</p><br>
<p>fruition on September 10, 1988 when Hedges Chapel, with 26 worshipers,</p><br>
<p>was reborn.</p><br>
<p>Today, when you enter the chapel you will find a</p><br>
<p>stark, elegant interior not much altered in over a century. The original</p><br>
<p>kerosene lanterns that illuminated the chapel have been replaced by</p><br>
<p>electric lights, and overhead fans have been added to circulate air. One</p><br>
<p>of the last of the pioneer vestiges to go was the 1905 wood-burning</p><br>
<p>stove, making way for today&#39;s baseboard electric heat and heat pumps</p><br>
<p>that also provide air conditioning.</p><br>
<p>As has been the case since the chapel&#39;s very</p><br>
<p>beginning, a cadre of ministers and lay preachers take turns providing</p><br>
<p>the message to the faithful at Hedges Chapel. We are an</p><br>
<p>interdenominational congregation and do not have a permanent pastor.</p><br>
<p>Membership is open to anyone, and guests are always warmly welcomed.</p><br>
<p>This wonderful little chapel building is now a Berkeley County historical</p><br>
<p>landmark, and welcomes an average of 40 to 50 worshippers each Sunday.</p><br>
<p>Gormania Presbyterian Church, now known as Gormania United Methodist Church, is a historic Presbyterian church on Mabis Avenue, 0.1 miles south of US 50 in Gormania, Grant County, West Virginia. It was built in 1888, and is a single-story ornate wooden structure in a late form of the Gothic Revival style. It features a corner entrance bell tower and tall spire. A rear addition including three Sunday school rooms was built in 1925. It was occupied by a Presbyterian congregation until the 1980s. In 1994, the Gormania United Methodist Church purchased the building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Otterbein Church, also known as Otterbein United Brethren Church, is a historic Methodist church near Evans, Jackson County, West Virginia. It was built in 1896, and is a single-story frame building sheathed in clapboard with a vertical wainscoting in the Late Gothic Revival-style. It features a square tower with rectangular vents on each side, small brackets, and a hipped-pyramidal roof. Also on the property is the church cemetery dating to roughly 1864.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Exchange Building, also known as Center Building, Center Hall, and the Grange Building is a historic commercial building located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1880 and is a three-story rectangular, stucco coated building with a five bay facade. It features a deep mansard roof enclosing the third floor and covered in slate in the Second Empire style. A prison cell dated to about 1905 is located in the buildings basement when, reportedly, a courthouse was located at this address. A barber shop has operated in the same location on the first floor of the Exchange Building for over 100 years. Klondike Kates, a restaurant, occupies the rest of the ground floor.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Newark Opera House is a historic commercial building and opera house located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1885 and is a four-story rectangular building with six bays at the north front facade. The fourth story was added in 1907. It features a mansard roof covered with patterned slate shingles in the Second Empire style. Between about 1885 and 1925 it was the site of live theater and music, in addition to movies.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Old Newark Comprehensive School is a historic school building in Newark, Delaware. It was completed in 1884 and is a two-story, rectangular public building. It has five bays at the original north front facade, with a later addition to the west. It housed elementary school grades from the time of its construction to about 1900. It housed the high schools industrial arts program from 1935 until 1965 and then served as the location of the Christina School Districts administrative offices, until 2009.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
