CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — West Virginia has its fair proportion of outdated church buildings, together with one positioned in Monroe County.

Rehoboth Church was constructed close to Union in Monroe County round 1786 after Edward Keenan, a brand new convert to the not too long ago created Methodist religion, deeded 5 acres of land for its development. Regardless of the challenge being given a lot land, the church itself finally turned only a small log cabin, made further sturdy to defend in opposition to potential Native American assaults.

Distinguished Methodist determine Francis Ashbury was stated to have preached the dedication ceremony for the newly based church, even holding classes of the Methodist Greenbrier Convention inside its partitions. The primary Methodist ordination west of the Alleghenies—for a decan named John Smith in 1788—was additionally held on the The Rehoboth Church, based on Basic Fee on Archives & Historical past.

Disrepair finally took maintain of the getting old constructing till its renovation round 1914, which most notably added a brand new roof.

The construction now exists because the Rehoboth Church and Museum and is on the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations. One also can discover the tombstone of Edward Keenan shut by.

A historic marker was erected for the church in 2009 close to Union by West Virginia Archives and Historical past.

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