National Historic Landmark - Old Main, Bethany College

Old Main has been the dominant building at this small, rural college in West Virginia's panhandle since it was erected between 1858 and 1871. The building also represents the college's pivotal historical role as the headquarters of Alexander Campbell (1788-1866), ...

Bethany

On the occasion of its Bicentennial, Morgan County placed this marker here to commemorate the community of

Bethany

The community of Bethany, anchored by the Bethany Baptist Church, appears on maps after 1915. A church congregation was established before then ...

Bethany United Methodist Church

(Lowe's Crossroads)

In the early part of the twentieth century,

members of the Old Jones’ Methodist Church

began to search for a more central

location for the congregation to worship.

Although the land for the new church was

donated by Sarah ...

Bethany Indian Mission & School

The Norwegian Lutheran Synod dedicated an Indian mission and boarding school on this site in 1887, the same year Congress passed the Dawes Severaty and General Allotment Act. The school boarded as many as 159 children at a time from ...

Bethany Church

The first Bethany Meeting House was erected by 1809 on the old Edgefield-Abbeville Stagecoach Road midway between Hard Labor and Cuffey Town Creeks. Bethany Baptist Church was constituted in December 1809, with Amos Dubose as pastor. The present church is ...

Bethany Veterans Wall Of Honor

[ left panel ]

Harold Durley USMC 1961 – 1964 • George D Vaill Sr USN WWII • Timothy L Vaill USN Vietnam • George D Vaill Jr. USAF Vietnam • Ernest Russell USA Korea • Harold E Lineweber USA Korea ...

Bethany Beach Loop Canal

Completed July 8, 1910, the Loop Canal marked the end of a long journey for vacationers traveling to Bethany Beach in the town’s early days. Arriving in Rehoboth by railroad, travelers would continue their voyage by boat, crossing Rehoboth and ...

Bethany Cemetery

This cemetery was established in the late 1800s when burial space set aside for African Americans in Austin's historic Oakwood Cemetery was no longer available. The oldest recorded burial is that of infant Hellen Moore in 1879. C. W. Jones ...

Bethany Lutheran Church

Early settlers in Fredericksburg worshiped together in a community church, the Vereins Kirche. On March 27, 1887, the Rev. John Heinzelmann and about 80 families organized a separate congregation known as Die Evangelische Kirche (The Evangelical church). Early worship services ...

Bethany Presbyterian Church

Organized in 1786, Bethany Presbyterian Church was the first church in Greene County. Dr. Francis Cummins, Dr. Francis Goulding, and other great ministers preached here. In 1886, Dr. James Woodrow was tried for heresy here in the first “monkey trial” ...