Ruins of St. George’s Chapel

This chapel was built by devout people of (then) Frederick Parish. Frederick County, Virginia joined Col. Robert Worthington in completing it in 1769. It was first called the English Church, then Berkeley Church, then Norborne Chapel, as the parish was ...

28 Chapel Street    Vanderhorst Mansion

circa 1832

Built as a suburban villa by a member of the wealthy Vanderhorst family, owners of much of Kiawah Island, the

stuccoed brick house stands two stories above a raised basement and has a piazza approached on the main

floor ...

Old Chapel

Lord Fairfax worshipped here in the “Old Chapel” of colonial Frederick Parish, established 1738. This stone building dates from 1790 and witnessed the early ministry (1810–1885) of Bishop Meade. Governor Edmund Randolph and Col. Nathaniel Burwell lie in this burying ...

Shaffer Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Structure, circa 1893, is Muncie's oldest standing public school building. Purchased by church congregation, circa 1928. Rallying point in August 1930 when bodies of two African-American men, lynched in Marion, were brought to Muncie for embalmment by church's pastor J.E. ...

Site of Chapel-of-Ease

To St. Mary Anne’s Church, North Elk Parish, North East, Maryland. Built in 1733, the oldest remaining gravestone in 1968 records the death of Thomas Shepherd, August 28, 1742.

Marker is on Dr. Jack Road 0.3 miles from Jacob Tome Memorial ...

Sacred Heart Chapel - White Marsh

(Formerly St. Francis Borgia)

Sacred Heart Chapel was built about 1741 by Jesuit Priests on the property known as White Marsh. The priests turned their 2,000 acre bequest into a thriving plantation. During the 1780's the American clergy met several times ...

Nesbitt-Union Chapel Ruins

c. 1880

In 1886, Mr. & Mrs. R.T. Nesbitt sold Union Chapel to

the church’s trustees. The deed specified it was to be

used by all Christian denominations and by schools and

agricultural societies. As this was a rural community,

various clergymen preached here on ...

Ambush at Ewell’s Chapel

His Men Quickly Scattered

Acting on good intelligence, Union Gen. George G. Meade ordered a trap set here for Maj. John Singleton Mosby and his band of partisan rangers on the morning of June 22, 1863. With a small detachment of ...

Butterwood Chapel

Butterwood Chapel, one of three Anglican chapels constructed in Dinwiddie County in the 18th century, was built by 1763 on or near this site. It probably was the first church built after the creation of Bath Parish in 1742. The ...

Base Chapel

A community, such as the one created by the military in Wendover, wouldnot have been complete without a base chapel for the spiritual guidance of men and women assigned to the base.

Chaplains were needed to assist in the mental and ...