Oak Grove Mennonite Church (Grantsville, Maryland, USA)
Oak Grove Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church)
located 2 miles (3 km) west of Grantsville, MD, on top of Negro
Mountain, a member of the Allegheny Conference, was started as a Sunday school
in a log schoolhouse. The first members were received in 1888. The first meetinghouse
was built in 1900 and remodeled in 1954. The church membership reached 45 in
1920 and then gradually declined. After 1950 the work was revived and in 1957
there were 30 members, with A. C. Walls as pastor.
Bibliography
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 1. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.
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