CHURCHES WITHIN THE PRESENT BOUNDARIES OF THE
SUSQUEHANNA CONFERENCE OF
THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
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FULTON COUNTY PA
1. Center United Methodist Church
Address: 3195 Doran Road
Municipality: Taylor township
County: Fulton
State: PA
Directions:
From Hustontown, go 6 miles north on PA 655 to the crossroads. Turn east on Dublin Mills Road and go 1 mile
to Doran Road. The church is at the
intersection, on the right.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Brief History:
A Sunday School
was organized at the Center Schoolhouse, 150 yards north of the present
building, about 1834. Taylor Chapel, a
one-room church and school building was erected at the present site in 1867,
destroyed by fire in 1902, and rebuilt.
The community building across the road was erected in 1954. The four Sunday School
rooms were added to the sanctuary in 1958.
2. Cito United Methodist Church
Address: 3746 Cito Road
Municipality: Ayr township
County: Fulton
State: PA
Directions:
Cito Road leaves
Main Street [PA 16] in McConnellsburg at the east end
of town (across from McDonald’s) as South Seventh Street. Follow Cito Road south
3.5 miles. The church is on the left.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Brief History:
In 1908, concerned laypeople from McConnellsburg began a summer Sunday School
in the Spring House Valley School, a few hundred yards west of the present building. In 1910, the pastor from McConnellsburg
held a revival at the Cito AME Church, still in
operation about ½ mile to the north. In 1912 a building was erected and a
congregation formed with 33 charter members.
The present new sanctuary was erected in 2003.
3. Clear Ridge United Methodist Church
Address: 3886 Clear Ridge Road [PA 475]
Municipality: Dublin township
County: Fulton
State: PA
Directions:
The church is 4 miles
north of Hustontown on PA 475, on the right side of
the road.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Brief History:
The land for this church was donated
in 1859 by Nathan and Susan Baker.
Construction of the building by the men of the community was interrupted
by the Civil War and completed after the war.
The parking lot to the north, formerly the site of the community school,
was purchased in 1925.
4. Ebenezer United Methodist Church
Address: 226 Ebenezer Church Road
Municipality: Belfast township
County: Fulton
State: PA
Directions:
From Harrisonville, go 7 miles south
on PA 655 to the jog in the road by the campmeeting
ground. Turn west into Ebenezer Church
Road and go 1.5 miles. The church is on
the left.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Brief History:
The oldest grave in the cemetery dates
from 1851, but the congregation’s first building appears to date from about
1884. The present structure was erected
in 1889.
5. Fairview United Methodist Church
Address: 2288 North Hess Road
Municipality: Taylor township
County: Fulton
State: PA
Directions:
From Hustontown,
go 1 mile toward Waterfall on PA 655. When PA 655 bears to the right, go straight onto North Hess Road. Follow North Hess Road for 3 miles. The church is on the right, just after going
under the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Brief History:
Services were held in area homes
beginning in the 1820’s. The first
church was built in 1859, and the present church was erected on adjacent land
in 1899 – after which the original building was sold and removed.
6. Knobsville United Methodist Church
Address: 11048 Waterfall Road [PA 475]
Municipality: Dublin township
County: Fulton
State: PA
Directions:
From the interchange of the PA turnpike
with US 522, go south on US 522 2.5 miles to PA 475, Go west on PA 475 ½ mile. The church is on the left.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Brief History:
The first church was built at the old
cemetery in 1844. A new church was
erected in 1886. The congregation
acquired the former school property to the north in 1916 and the picnic grounds
in 1956. In 1990 the congregation
received the members of nearby Bethlehem (former United Brethren) UMC. The new facility at the present location was dedicated
in 2003.
7. Harrisonville Asbury United Methodist Church
Address: 7404 Lincoln Highway [US 30]
Municipality: Licking Creek township
County: Fulton
State: PA
Directions:
From Harrisonville, go 6 miles west
on US 30. The church is on the left.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Brief History:
This congregation was
organized in 1836, and the ground upon the church was erected was purchased in
1839. For many years the Harrisonville
charge was known as the Licking Creek charge.
8. McConnellsburg United Methodist Church
Address: 121 North Second Street [US 522]
Municipality: borough of McConnellsburg
County: Fulton
State: PA
Directions:
The church is on the
southwest corner of Second and Market Streets, across from the courthouse. Market Street is parallel to and two blocks north
of Lincoln Way [PA 16]
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church
Brief History:
The first church was a stone
structure erected in 1843 on Third Street, site of the present Methodist Cemetery. A brick church was erected at the present
location in 1870, and the present building was dedicated in 1925. The house to the south of the church was
purchased in 1956 and used for Sunday School until it
became the parsonage in 1958. The church was on the Licking Creek [Harrisonville] charge until 1843,
and then with Mercersburg for two years before becoming the seat of the McConnellsburg charge in 1845.
9. Rehoboth United Methodist Church
Address: 2328 Tollgate Ridge Road [PA928]
Municipality: Thompson township
County: Fulton
State: PA
Directions:
From the intersection, east of Warfordsburg, of PA 484 and PA 655, go south
on PA 655 1.7 miles to Timber Ridge Road.
Turn left on Timber Ridge Road and go 1.4 miles to Orchard Road. Turn right on Orchard Road 0.6 miles to PA
928. Turn left on PA 928 and go north
1.9 miles. The church is on the right.
Historic Conference:
Baltimore Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church
Brief History:
Rehoboth, Warfordsburg and Little Cove [Franklin County] have been
served together since their founding.
When the Central Pennsylvania Conference was formed in 1869, they were
part of the large Hancock MD circuit – and so they remained in the Baltimore
Conference. Two other Pennsylvania
churches on that circuit were Black Oak and Buck Valley. In 1921 a Warfordsburg
charge was formed, and in 1924 a parsonage was purchased in Warfordsburg. In 1944 the Warfordsburg
charge was dissolved and mostly taken into the Morgan WV circuit (with the
Little Cove returning to the Hancock circuit).
In 1947 the Warfordsburg charge was reformed
with 3 churches (Warfordsburg, Rehoboth and Little
Cove) in PA and 1 church (Piney Plains) and the parsonage (Little Orleans) in
MD. When the conferences were redefined
along state lines in 1962, Warfordsburg, Rehoboth and
Little Cove came into the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a charge without a
parsonage – and have remained so ever since.
10. Siloam United Methodist Church
Address: 9541 Pleasant Ridge Road [PA 655]
Municipality: Licking Creek township
County: Fulton
State: PA
Directions:
From Harrisonville, go 2 miles south
on PA 655. The church is on the right.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Brief History:
This church building was erected in
1878, and the addition wascompleted in the 1950’s.
11. Warfordsburg United Methodist Church
Address: Barnhart’s Store Lane, village of Warfordsburg
Municipality: Bethel township
County: Fulton
State: PA
Directions:
From the interchange of I-70 and US 522,
go south one block on the extension of US 522 to PA 484. Turn east on PA 484 and go ½ mile (past the high school) into the village of Warfordsburg. Turn
north at the store onto the only lane going north off PA 484 and go one
block. The church is the last building
on the left.
Historic Conference:
Baltimore Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church
Brief History:
Warfordsburg,
Rehoboth and Little Cove [Franklin County] have been served together since
their founding. When the Central Pennsylvania
Conference was formed in 1869, they were part of the large Hancock MD circuit –
and so they remained in the Baltimore Conference. Two other Pennsylvania churches on that
circuit were Black Oak and Buck Valley.
In 1921 a Warfordsburg charge was formed, and
in 1924 a parsonage was purchased in Warfordsburg. In 1944 the Warfordsburg
charge was dissolved and mostly taken into the Morgan WV circuit (with the
Little Cove returning to the Hancock circuit).
In 1947 the Warfordsburg charge was reformed
with 3 churches (Warfordsburg, Rehoboth and Little
Cove) in PA and 1 church (Piney Plains) and the parsonage (Little Orleans) in
MD. When the conferences were redefined
along state lines in 1962, Warfordsburg, Rehoboth and
Little Cove came into the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a charge without a
parsonage – and have remained so ever since.
12. Wells Valley United Methodist Church
Address: 1568 Wells Valley Road
Municipality: Wells township
County: Fulton
State: PA
Directions:
Wells Valley Road goes south from PA
913 at New Granada, which is two miles west of PA 913’s eastern terminus at PA
655 in Waterfall. The church is 4 miles
south of New Granada, on the left side of the highway.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Brief History:
The land for this church was given in
1821, and the first building, a log structure, was erected on the west side of
the road, by the cemetery. It was
replaced by a frame structure in 1889.
In 1979 the congregation moved the church building across the road in
order to have room for expansion.