St. John's Episcopal Church

"The Church Within A Church"

This property is listed in the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Buckeye Avenue (Kansas Route 15) and 6th Street, on the ...

St. John's Episcopal Church

St. John's Episcopal Church parish was founded in 1890, but the church was not built until 1897. The first services were held Feb. 20, 1898. The design of the church is copied from one in Como, Canada, where the Hodgson ...

St. John's Episcopal Church

1776 1976

St. John's Episcopal Church

In 1774, St John's, the first Episcopal Church in this area, was built here on land granted by the town. Struck by lightning that same year, the original building was repaired and endured for a hundred ...

St. John's Episcopal Church

These weathered ruins are all that remain of St. John's Episcopal Church - one of Harpers Ferry's five earliest churches.

Built in 1852 with money provided by church fairs, St. John's served as a hospital and barracks during the Civil War ...

St. John's Episcopal Church

This congregation was organized in the 1830's, with services being held in private homes and the Methodist meeting house. The present building was first used in October 1852 and completed the following year. During the Civil War, Union troops occupied ...

St. John's Episcopal Church

Organized 1834

Present building erected 1855 under rectorship of Nicholas Hamner Cobbs, first Bishop of Alabama. Primary convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America was held here, July 3-6, 1861.

Charles Minnegerode Beckwith, fourth Bishop of Alabama, ...

St. John's Episcopal Church

Completed in 1847. The oldest original church building standing in Rutherford County. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

Marker is at the intersection of N. Main Street and 6th Street, on the right when traveling north on ...