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Photographer: Bradley Owen
Taken: October 21, 2016
Caption: Ebenezer Church History
Additional Description: 1834-55 - Old and New School Baptist share use of old stone church building
1855 - Fire damages northwest corner of old meeting house
1855 - In September, the New School Baptist trustees acquire land next to Old Church and sign contract for their building
1864 - On October 13, on this site Mosby's Rangers divided a federal payroll seized from a train west of Harper's Ferry
1887 - Ebenezer Cemetery Company first incorporated and land behind churches deeded for a new cemetery
1934 - Old Ebenezer building transferred to care of Cemetery Company
1941 - Cemetery Company charter revoked due to non-payment of taxes: records show that New Church had no congregation then
Submitted: June 5, 2021, by Bradley Owen of Morgantown, West Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p590199
File Size: 4.296 Megabytes

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