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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.

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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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MLA style: Beachy, Claude R. "Oak Grove Mennonite Church (Grantsville, Maryland, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 25 May 2012. http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/O332.html.

APA style: Beachy, Claude R. (1957). Oak Grove Mennonite Church (Grantsville, Maryland, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 25 May 2012, from http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/O332.html.
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