Lewie Chapel (Old Gilbert Methodist Church) / The Lewie Family

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Lewie Chapel, a Methodist church founded on this site in the 1870s by Solomon R. Lewie (1835-1878) and others, was later known as Lewiedale Methodist Church and after 1910 as Gilbert Methodist Church. The original sanctuary, replaced in 1960 ...

Chapel Point Park

Site of county recreational facilities from the early 1900s to 1962, at the confluence of the Potomac and Port Tobacco Rivers. Originally a resort for St. Thomas Manor, steamboats brought passengers from Washington DC for the day. Opened to the ...

Rock Chapel

This is the oldest Methodist place of worship in this region. Built originally in 1773. Rebuilt in 1849, the second building is still standing about a mile north of this point on the side road.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

St. Paul’s Chapel

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Manhattan’s only pre-Revolutionary church building has a remarkable history stretching from George Washington’s inauguration to the attack of September 11th. Built in the 1760s, on what was then the outskirts of town, St. Paul’s originally served residents of the ...

Lewis Chapel / Cranford Memorial Methodist Church

This church is a combination of several structures built on the site of the first Pohick Church (1730–1774), making this one of the earliest sites of a religious institution in Fairfax County. Lewis Chapel, named after a Methodist circuit rider, ...

Kirkpatrick Chapel

1873

Rutgers

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Kirkpatrick Chapel

1873

Kirkpatrick Chapel, designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (great-great-grandson of the first president of Rutgers, also the architect of Geology Hall), was built as a chapel and library. The library ...

George Washington Parke Custus and Arlington Chapel

Arlington's first house of worship, the Chapel of Ease of Arlington Plantation, was near this location. George Washington Parke Custis built it about 1825 for this family, neighbors, and servants. Services were conducted by students from the Episcopal Theological Seminary ...

Lee Chapel Church

1871 - 1951

On this site stood Lee Chapel, a Methodist Episcopal Church, built 1871 and named in honor of General Robert E. Lee. Lee Chapel replaced Mount Carmel Church which had been located at Ox Road and present day ...