A Traveler's Guide to the Heritage Landmarks of The United Methodist Church


A TRAVELER'S GUIDE TO THE HERITAGE LANDMARKS
OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

By action of the 2008 General Conference, there are currently forty-one Heritage Landmarks of The United Methodist Church. The Book of Discipline defines a Heritage Landmark as "a building, location, or structure specifically related to significant events, developments, or personalities in the overall history of The United Methodist Church or its antecedents."

The Heritage Landmarks of United Methodism remind us of those people and events that have shaped our history. They are tangible reminders of our heritage, and their preservation helps keep our denominational legacy alive. For further information about the forty Heritage Landmarks, or to learn how a place becomes so designated, please contact the General Secretary, General Commission on Archives and History, P.O. Box 127, Madison, NJ 07940.

Material in this guide may be copied by local churches, Heritage Landmarks, and other agencies of The United Methodist Church without further approval.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Look to the rock from which you were hewn... The United Methodist Story in its Heritage Landmarks

Heritage Landmarks:

ALABAMA
    Asbury Manual Labor School/Mission, Fort Mitchell

DELAWARE
    Barratt's Chapel and Museum, Frederica

FLORIDA
    Bethune-Cookman College/Foundation, Daytona Beach

GEORGIA
    Town of Oxford, Oxford
    John Wesley's American Parish, Savannah
    St. Simons Island, St. Simons Island
    Wesleyan College Cluster, Macon

ILLINOIS
    Peter Cartwright Church, Pleasant Plains
    Wesley Foundation, University of Illinois, Champaign

KENTUCKY
    Site of the Organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Louisville

MAINE
    Cox Memorial United Methodist Church, Hallowell

MARYLAND
    Old Otterbein Church, Baltimore
    Robert Strawbridge House, New Windsor
    Cokesbury College Site, Abingdon
    Lovely Lane Meetinghouse Site, Baltimore
    United Brethren Founding Sites Cluster, Frederick and Washington Counties

MASSACHUSETTS
    Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Boston

MISSOURI
    Old McKendree Chapel, near Jackson

NEW YORK
    John Street Church, New York City
    New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn

NORTH CAROLINA
    Green Hill House, Louisburg
    Whitaker's Chapel, Enfield

OHIO
    Bishop John Seybert/Flat Rock Cluster, near Flat Rock
    Hanby House, Westerville
    Wyandott Indian Mission, Upper Sandusky

OREGON
    Willamette Mission Site, near Salem

PENNSYLVANIA
    Albright Chapel, Kleinfeltersville
    Boehm's Chapel, Willow Street
    First Church Building and Publishing House, Evangelical Association, New Berlin
    First United Methodist Church, Johnstown
    Isaac Long's Barn, Landis Valley, Lititz
    St. George's Church, Philadelphia
    Zoar United Methodist Church, Philadelphia

SOUTH DAKOTA
    Deadwood Cluster, Deadwood

TENNESSEE
    Acuff's Chapel, Blountville
    Edward Cox House, Bluff City

TEXAS
    McMahan Chapel, San Augustine
    Rutersville Cluster, Rutersville

VIRGINIA
    Keywood Marker, Glade Spring
    Old Stone Church Site, Leesburg

WEST VIRGINIA
    Rehoboth Church and Museum, Union

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