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First Baptist Church of Hartford

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Church unveiling new monument By BILL TOSCANO btoscano@poststar.com HARTFORD — Dale LaPoint and the other members of the First Baptist Church of Hartford are planning a major event for Friday, and it wasn’t even their idea. “This is not something we generated,” said LaPoint, who is the chairman of the church trustees and the church historian. “Jeff Faggart got in Read more...
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Pigeon Creek Primitive Baptist Church

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Pigeon Creek Primitive Baptist Church is the oldest Baptist church in Florida. It was organized January 7, 1821, twenty-four years before Florida was granted statehood.   From the Baptist History Preservation Society: Image Credit: Harris, Joy. “Pigeon Creek Baptist Church.” Old Florida Churches, 30 Jan. 2024, www.historicfloridachurches.com/post/pigeon-creek-baptist-church. Read more...
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Culpeper Baptist Church

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From Encyclopedia Virginia:   In this 1772 document, the sheriff of Orange County is ordered to summon Nathaniel Saunders, minister of Mountain Run Baptist Church, to appear in Culpeper County Court to answer the charge of “unlawfull Preaching.” Virginia required ministers to obtain preaching licenses, but some Baptists refused to do so on the grounds that it was not a Read more...
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McKendree Methodist / Funeral of President James K. Polk

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From the Newspaper:  the body was conveyed to the Methodist Church, and a funeral sermon delivered by the Rev. J. B. McFerrin. The speaker, in that portion of his remarks personal to the deceased, gave a brief sketch of his life and public career, passed a high and deserved eulogium on his moral character and unblemished integrity, and detailed in Read more...
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Billy Sunday 1875-76: Davenport Soldiers Orphans Home

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Tabernacles & Sawdust Trails: F. J. Sessions, Superintendent of the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home, at Davenport, says: “Howard E. and William A. Sunday were admitted to this institution by transfer from the Glenwood, Iowa, Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home when the latter was closed January 29, 1875. They were admitted to the Glenwood institution September 25, 1874. Dismissed from this institution June 10, Read more...
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Church of the Presidents

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Place where John & Abigail Adams, and John Quincy & Louisa Catherine Adams worshipped and are buried.   Of interest is a letter from John to Abigail about his thoughts on church:   Phyladelphia Octr. 9, 1774 My Dear I am wearied to Death with the Life I lead. The Business of the Congress is tedious, beyond Expression. This Assembly Read more...
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First Parish Church in Plymouth

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The Pilgrims who gathered first in Scrooby, then moved to the Netherlands, then they worshipped together in the Mayflower as they sailed in 1620. Their meetinghouse was the fort (depicted at Plimoth Plantation but originally located on Burial Hill), then moved down the hill to the current location. In 1801, the Trinitarians left in the split (identifying with the theological Read more...
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Billy Sunday 1885: Marshalltown, IA Tremont Inn

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Wikipedia: In 1880, Sunday relocated to Marshalltown, Iowa, where, because of his athleticism, he had been recruited for a fire brigade team. In Marshalltown, Sunday worked at odd jobs, competed in fire brigade tournaments, and played for the town baseball team.[7] In 1882, with Sunday in left field, the Marshalltown team defeated the state champion Des Moines team 13–4.[8] Sunday’s Read more...
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Sight & Sound Theatre

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Sight & Sound: Growing up on a dairy farm in rural Lancaster County, our founder Glenn Eshelman was so inspired by the beauty of the world around him that he began painting landscapes as a boy. As he grew up, Glenn continued to pursue his artistic interests, eventually buying a camera to take reference photos for his paintings. Photography quickly Read more...
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Abingdon Tavern

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Can’t confirm this is THE tavern, but this tavern dates to 1779 and is the oldest surviving building in Abingdon. “In January of [1839] young Sheffey and a group of his drinking buddies, left an Abingdon tavern to go to a small revival meeting being held on an upper floor in Grenway’s Storehouse along Main Street, with the intention of Read more...
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A. Vest & Sons Funeral Home

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“When the time had arrived to seek out some place to spend the night, Sheffey would seek a home where he could find those comforts which his heart and body craved. He enjoyed sleeping in a bed with a white counterpane over the covers. At the home of Aurelius Vest, where he spent his last days and where he was Read more...
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Sheffey’s Sheepskin

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From Willard Barbery in 1950: It was Mrs. Suiter who showed us the sheepskin, in the Davidson home, formerly used by Bro. Sheffey and made mention of in another place in these writings. That sheepskin was given to Rev. Peter Rayburn Suiter, local preacher in the Methodist church for many years in Bland county and an associate of the itinerant preacher. Bro. Sheffey Read more...
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Alfred Ackley – Memorial Presbyterian Church

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This site used to be Memorial Presbyterian Church, but according to PA Historic Preservation: Unfortunately, the size of the congregation declined in the late 20th century and eventual decreased to twenty-five members. The Memorial Church was formally dissolved by action of the Presbytery of Lackawanna on May 19, 2009. In 2011 the Presbytery of Lackawanna sold the property to King’s College for $125,000. Read more...

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