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  1. SUBJECT:

    2. St. Peter’s Union Church.

  2. LOCATION:

    3. 2 miles south of Shenandoah, Virginia.

  3. DATE:

    4. About 1780.

  4. OWNERS:

    5. Always owned by St. Peter’s Union Church.

  5. DESCRIPTION:

    6. It is a rectangular log structure on a rock foundation weatherboarded outside, with a gabled roof covered with metal. It has eight windows with eight, ten by twelve-inch panes. It has two double doors of pine, which are of the four paneled type. The walls have wainscoting and are papered. The locks are old-fashioned outside iron locks with common butt hinges. The floor is partly of pine timbers.

  6. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

    7. Old St. Peter’s Union church has long been a landmark of the County. It was a Union Church when it was first built and it maintains the same policy today. The five denominations who worship here the Lutherans, United Brothers, Presbyterians, Methodists and Christians. In the early days it was visited by some very noble ministers of the gospel, such as Asbury, William Cravens, John Bear and others who had a hard struggle to deliver their sermons and who risked their lives in those days. It is not known if Robert Williams who came to Baltimore County, Maryland in 1772 and then to Norfolk, Virginia, preached here or not.

  7. ART:
  8. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants: Mrs. Ed. Jones and Mrs. Rion, Luray, VA

Rev. L.E. Sheaffer, Shenandoah, VA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 10. 1936 C.C. Morris

Shenandoah, VA