Site of the Methodist Church
1789–1817
Francis Asbury, Father of American Methodism, founded a Methodist Society in Annapolis in 1777. They built a meeting house in 1785 within the present grounds of the Naval Academy. In 1789, the “Old Blue Church” moved to this site and house one of the earliest Methodist congregations in America. In 1818, they built a new church on State Circle at North Street where they worshipped for 155 years.
Marker can be reached from the intersection of State Circle and North Street, in the median.
Courtesy hmdb.org
