FEDERALSBURG CHRIST METHODIST CHURCH 1873

FEDERALSBURG CHRIST METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH

FEDERALSURG, MARYLAND

Abstract from October 27, 1919, Philadelphia Inquirer , Philadelphia

Christ Methodist Prortestant Church here in Federalsurg, Maryland, under the Rev. J. L.

Nichols, pastor, is undergoing a thorough overhauling.

This church is a church with a history. In 1871 Presbyterians organized a congregation

in Federalsburg and with Rev. R. C. Boing as pastor, in 1873 built the present

handsome and commodious church. The first Board of Trustees were resident of the

town, namely, Edward Goslin, H. P. Chambers, W. C. Logan, R. Mitchel, I. Rhoades,

1. A. Sanders, Dr. W. D. Noble and John Wilson.

The splendid bell in the steeple was made by the Samuel Register & Sons, of Baltimore

and was donated to the church by Pastor Boing and was said to be one of the finest

toned bells in Maryland.

When the church as built the carpenter in charge was ambitious to make the bell tower

the highest church tower the highest on the Peninsula, therefor, the bell is 150 feet high.

!897 saw the congregation scatter and the services were discontinued, the fine church

closed for at least five years.

In 1902 the church was reopened by Methodist Protestants, it rapidly grew to be one of

the the thriftiest Methodist churches on t he peninsula.

The Maryland Annual Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church met in Federalsburg

in 1911 and it was in this old church many of the session's were held.

Abstract May 1, 2018 by Harrison H., for www.faccbook.com “Remembering Federalsburg”. & www.delmarhistory.blogspot.com