Site of the First Meeting House

Site of the First Meeting House

Columbia Parish

Prospect Congregational Church

1778 — 1841

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Church Street and Center Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Nomini Baptist Meetinghouse

Nearby stood the original “Nomony” (early variant spelling) Meetinghouse. On 29 Apr. 1786, 17 members established Nomini Baptist Church. Until 1790, when the meetinghouse was built on land donated by charter member Joseph Peirce, the congregation met in the homes ...

Germantown Meetinghouse

Built here in 1770 – the first meetinghouse of the Church of the Brethren in the nation. Founded in Germany in 1708, the denomination was entirely transplanted to America by 1750 due to religious persecution. Many early Brethren leaders are ...

Peachblossom Meetinghouse

Built 1880, by people of Swedenberg, Lutheran, Methodist and Brethren Faiths near Peachblossom Creek and used by each denomination every fourth Sunday. The building originally known as Peachblossom Meetinghouse, was so named because the first peach trees in Maryland were ...

Friends Meeting House and Graveyard

After founding the town of Ellicotts Mills in 1772, the Ellicott brothers established this burying ground in 1795 and built the adjacent Friends Meeting House in 1800.

Marker is on Old Columbia Pike 0.2 miles south of Main Street, on the ...

Unitarian Meeting House

Unitarian Meeting House

has been designated a

National Historic LandmarkDesigned by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the First Unitarian Society of Madison, the meeting house is an innovative building that has influenced religious architecture worldwide since the mid-twentieth century. Completed in ...

Betty’s Cove Meetinghouse

Near this spot, about 1665, Quaker settlers built the Betty’s Cove Meetinghouse, at this intersection, known as “The Pincushion,” they established a school, adding one of the first public libraries in America in 1676, George Fox, founder of the Society ...

Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse

In continuous use as a house of worship since about 1708, it served as a hospital and campsite for Washington's forces on way to Valley Forge. Eastern wing, added in 1780, replaced original log school. Site was a center of ...

Mann Meeting House

Just to the East stood Mann Meeting House, the first Methodist Episcopal Church in this region. It was built before 1794 and abandoned about 1880. The site is now occupied by the Macedonia Colored Baptist Church.

Marker is on Tidewater Trail ...

Meeting House

Westfield Historical Site

Site of the first permanent frame house of worship, facing the Church Green, known as the Presbyterian Church in Westfield, organized 1728. Erected circa 1740, it was enlarged in 1758 and a bell added. British troops occupied and ...