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Hebron Church (Intermont, West Virginia)

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The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 25, 2016 by  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:30, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hebron Church in 2015

Hebron Church is a mid-19th century Lutheran church in Intermont, Hampshire County, in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It was founded in 1786 as Great Capon Church by German settlers in the Cacapon River Valley, making it the first Lutheran church west of the Shenandoah Valley. The congregation worshiped in a log church, which initially served both Lutheran and Reformed denominations. In 1821, records and sermons transitioned from German to English. The church's congregation built the present Greek Revival-style church building in 1849, when it was renamed Hebron on the Cacapon. The original log church was moved across the road and subsequently used as a sexton's house, Sunday school classroom, and public schoolhouse. To celebrate the congregation's 175th anniversary in 1961, Hebron Church constructed a brick community and religious education building designed to be architecturally compatible with the 1849 brick church. Hebron Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 16, 2014 for its architectural distinction as a local example of vernacular Greek Revival church architecture in the Potomac Highlands. (Full article...)