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  1. SUBJECT:

    2. Trissels (Tressills)* Church.

  2. LOCATION:

    3. 1 mile west of Broadway, Virginia, on Linville Road. (State Route #259 crossing U.S. Route #11 in upper section of county) west of U.S. Route #11.

  3. DATE:

    4. 1822.

  4. OWNERS:

    5. Eastern Mennonite Congregation.

  5. DESCRIPTION:

    6. The church has been remodeled, but the architectural details of the interior and exterior have not been spoiled.

    See form #3686, attached.

  6. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

    7. This was the first Mennonite Church built in Rockingham County; the second was The Pike Church built in 1825. The third was Weavers Church built in 1827, and the fourth was Brenneman’s Church built in 1831. Around the nucleus of these four churches has grown a Mennonite membership of one thousand six hundred and their Church the Eastern Mennonite School is one-mile northwest of Harrisonburg, Virginia.

  7. ART:
  8. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informants: Mr. Elias Brunk, Harrisonburg, Virginia

W.O. Mowbray, singers Glen, Virginia.

 

 

 

 

January 28, 1937 Miles E. Snyder

Harrisonburg, VA

*Trissels was misspelled Tressils in this article.