1883 · Rohr
Mt. Zion Church Is Established in the Rohr Community
The Preston County Historical Society's 1979 county history dates the establishment of Mt. Zion Church in the Rohr community to 1883. A 1972 Dominion-Post profile preserves an earlier construction tradition, reporting that Jacob Cale donated the ground, Henry Rohr and Edwin Gibson hand-split stone for the foundation, and nine-year-old Calvin Rohr carried water for the builders. On February 24, 1893, Jacob and Clarissa E. Cale formally conveyed the approximately one-half-acre church parcel to trustees of the Evangelical Association of North America; the deed expressly records that Mt. Zion Church was already standing on the land.
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The Dominion-Post, “Mason-Dixonland Churches: Mt. Zion United Methodist Church,” January 2, 1972, p. 7-D
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