This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mueller Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5BC.2ACI/1605 Message Board Post: I am trying to find the current location of the Peaked Mountain Church. My great-great-great-great grandmother was baptised there in 1776. i read that it was moved from its original location. I think her parents were living in Meullerstadt which is now Woodstock. I presume the church was near there but now references to it say Rockingham county. Does anyone know where it is?

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong (at least I hope they will!). The original site of the Peaked Mountain Church is at or near where Brown Memorial UCC is now located in McGaheysville, Rockingham County, Virginia. I know there are other kind souls on the list that can give a more detailed and accurate description of the location. But, to my general understanding that is where the original church itself was located. Michael Sellers ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 10:21 AM Subject: [VAROCKIN] Peaked Mountain Church > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Mueller > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5BC.2ACI/1605 > > Message Board Post: > > I am trying to find the current location of the Peaked Mountain Church. My great-great-great-great grandmother was baptised there in 1776. i read that it was moved from its original location. I think her parents were living in Meullerstadt which is now Woodstock. I presume the church was near there but now references to it say Rockingham county. Does anyone know where it is? >

Peaked Mountain Church was in/near McGaheysville. The original church no longer exists. Since its name refers to the mountain at the end of the Massanutten range near McGaheysville, which is many miles (30?) from Woodstock, it seems unlikely they were the same churches. I'm not sure, though; someone else may have better info. Bill Derrow [email protected] wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: Mueller >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5BC.2ACI/1605 > >Message Board Post: > >I am trying to find the current location of the Peaked Mountain Church. My great-great-great-great grandmother was baptised there in 1776. i read that it was moved from its original location. I think her parents were living in Meullerstadt which is now Woodstock. I presume the church was near there but now references to it say Rockingham county. Does anyone know where it is? > > > > >

If you go to the Library of Virginia website, and click on "What We Have," and then click on "Photographic Collections," you can find a photo of the church. Just type Peaked Mountain Church into the search box. http://www.lva.lib.va.us ~Wendy ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 1:21 PM Subject: [VAROCKIN] Peaked Mountain Church > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Mueller > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5BC.2ACI/1605 > > Message Board Post: > > I am trying to find the current location of the Peaked Mountain Church. > My great-great-great-great grandmother was baptised there in 1776. i read > that it was moved from its original location. I think her parents were > living in Meullerstadt which is now Woodstock. I presume the church was > near there but now references to it say Rockingham county. Does anyone > know where it is? > >

Go to this web site for exact directions. http://www.rootsweb.com/~varockin/HRHS/cem/peak_mtn.htm Ed Rinaca ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 1:21 PM Subject: [VAROCKIN] Peaked Mountain Church > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Mueller > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5BC.2ACI/1605 > > Message Board Post: > > I am trying to find the current location of the Peaked Mountain Church. My great-great-great-great grandmother was baptised there in 1776. i read that it was moved from its original location. I think her parents were living in Meullerstadt which is now Woodstock. I presume the church was near there but now references to it say Rockingham county. Does anyone know where it is? > >

As Harriet said, there was an "Upper" Peaked Mountain and a "Lower" Peaked Mountain. The Upper Peaked Mountain church was, as Linda and Thom indicated, at the Cross Roads church (which is now a Ruitan hall). It was a union congregation formed by the Reformed Church and the Presbyterian Church. The cemetery http://www.rootsweb.com/~varockin/HRHS/cem/massanutten1.htm remains at the corner of routes 679 (Battlefield Rd) and 276 (Keezletown Rd). The congregation moved to the corner of route 276 and route 33. The "new" church building is called Massanutten Presbyterian Church and has no cemetery. Here is a little history: http://www.massanuttenchurch.com/ The link says the congregation began just after the civil war. Perhaps they moved from their former site since it had been in the midst of the Battle of Cross Keys or perhaps members split off to form the new congregation. The Lower Peaked Mountain church was a union church made up of the Reformed Church and the Lutheran Church. Here is a little blurb from Wayland: http//www.rootsweb.com/~varockin/wayland/chap14.htm 3. McGaheysville Peaked Mountain Church, built in 1769, and held jointly by the Lutherans and Reformed, stood at or near the site now occupied by the old union church. The latter is said to have been built about 1800 by Nicholas Leap, and to have been dedicated May 25, 1804, by Christian Streit and John Brown; used only by the Lutherans since 1885. Here are the records from the William and Mary Quarterly: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~troutt/~troutt/Miscellaneous/Peaked+Mt..htm This record tells of the three locations where this church was located. The third, and last, is the one Michael indicated in the WPS record at the Library of Virginia. Little remains of the cemetery: http://www.rootsweb.com/~varockin/HRHS/cem/peak_mtn.htm Nothing remains of the Peaked Mountain Church building. From many accounts, it "disappeared" over night and no one knows who tore it down. Deb Wake Richmond, VA At 01:21 PM 9/5/2006, you wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: Mueller >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5BC.2ACI/1605 > >Message Board Post: > >I am trying to find the current location of the Peaked Mountain >Church. My great-great-great-great grandmother was baptised there >in 1776. i read that it was moved from its original location. I >think her parents were living in Meullerstadt which is now >Woodstock. I presume the church was near there but now references >to it say Rockingham county. Does anyone know where it is?