The (non-profit) Methodist Cemetery Association (Tenleytown, Washington, DC) Announces their annual executive and business meeting Sunday May 21, 2006 2:00 p.m. at Friendship Terrace located at 4201 Butterworth Place NW just off 42nd Street behind the cemetery. Agenda items to include: discussions for preserving the cemetery with its history; strategic planning decisions; general business; and election of officers. Cemetery grounds maintenance is scheduled, weather permitting, for the day before the annual meeting, Saturday May 20, 2006 9:00 a.m. until done. Volunteers are always appreciated!! Please bring your own gardening gloves and non-electric tools. NO mower is needed! The Methodist Cemetery (over 150 years old) located at 42nd St. & Murdock Mill Rd., NW in Tenleytown, Washington, DC (deeded 1855) is a small private cemetery with much local history. The Methodist Cemetery now bordered/bounded by Eldbrooke United Methodist Church (circa 1840; present church building 1926/1927) 4100 River Road, NW Washington, DC 20016; the younger but Historic landmark art deco Sears/Hechinger's Building 1941 at 4500 Wisconsin Avenue (now Best Buy and the Container Store); Iona House; & 42nd St, NW. Websites with information about the Methodist Cemetery and those buried there are: http://www.rpbates.com/methodistcemetery/index.html and http://www.interment.net/data/us/dc/wash/elderbrook/tenley.htm More information about those interred in The Methodist Cemetery can be obtained in the two registers of 1940 & 1954 compiled during walks through the Methodist Cemetery recording all legible markers by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), archived at the DAR library; "Selected Small Cemeteries of Washington, DC", compiled by Paul E. Sluby, Sr. Columbian Harmony Society, c1987; and the "Register of burials of the Joseph F. Birch Funeral Home / Washington, D.C.": Columbian Harmony Society, c1989. 4 v. by Paul E. Sluby. Tenleytown (also known as Tenallytown and Tennellytown) dates from the 1700s, a farming and artisan community providing the green groceries, dairy products and tradesmen for much of the city. Tenleytown was centered around and named for its well known Tenally Tavern which was owned and operated by the Tenally family and located at the toll stop on the Road to Frederick. Tenleytown is the second oldest community (after Georgetown) incorporated into the District of Columbia. Many of the prominent citizens of Tenleytown were the founders, builders and members of the Methodist Cemetery and the Mt. Zion/Eldbrooke Methodist Church. Tenleytown played a crucial role (highest point in the city - Fort Reno) of protecting Washington during the Civil War Nearby Camp Frieze utilized the Methodist Cemetery and Mt. Zion/Eldbrooke Methodist Church (which were almost as high an elevation) as a military headquarters, fort, campsite, barracks, and hospital where troops from Rhode Island a! nd New York were stationed -- destroying the church building and some tombstones. (See "Tenleytown, D.C.: Country Village into City Neighborhood" (ISBN: 0960698604) by Judith Beck Helm. In 2005, Metropolitan Memorial and Eldbrooke United Methodist Churches joined to become the Greater Metropolitan Parish of Washington, DC; and in 2006 the 166-year-old Eldbrooke United Methodist Church was closed. Negotiations are now ongoing to build on the present site of the Eldbrooke United Methodist Church; and the Cemetery Association has been approached about incorporating their floor area ratio (FAR) density rights into the Eldbrooke Church site building package. Again, the Methodist Cemetery Association urges your participation. Interested parties should contact: President, Audrey Schwartz, 301 946-3056; AudreySch930@aol.com