St. John’s Episcopal Church

During the Civil War this church served as a signal station for both the Confederacy and the Union. On May 5, 1864 Col. Samuel A. Duncan’s brigade of United States Colored Troops (4th, 5th, and 6th U.S.C.T.) occupied City Point ...

St. John’s Episcopal Church

Site of

St. John’s Episcopal Church

and Burial Ground

Built 1747. Samuel

Seabury Jr. Catechist,

1748 & later

First American Bishop 1784

Marker is on Park Avenue (County Route 35), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

St. John’s Episcopal Church

Still Faithful after the Ravages of War

Passing armies occupied and fortified Centreville, positioned between Washington, D.C., and Manassas Junction, beginning in July 1861 when Confederate and Union forces met during the war’s first significant campaign. As American and British ...

St. John’s African Methodist Episcopal Church

St. John’s African Methodist Episcopal Church has been registered as a Virginia Historic Landmark pursuant to the authority vested in the Virginia Historic Landmarks Board Act 1966. This property has been entered in the national Register of Historical Places by ...