Mt. Clinton Mennonite Church
Founded in 1874 near Muddy Creek northwest of Harrisonburg, Mt. Clinton grew from a small wood-frame meetinghouse into a congregation that marked its centennial in 1974.
Church Landmarks
Founded in 1874 near Muddy Creek northwest of Harrisonburg, Mt. Clinton grew from a small wood-frame meetinghouse into a congregation that marked its centennial in 1974.
One of three early Brethren centers in Rockingham County, Linville Creek completed its first log meetinghouse in 1828 on land donated by Elder John Kline.
Founded in 1824 as Augusta County’s first Brethren congregation, Middle River’s “Brick Church” hosted the 1851 Annual Conference and served as a Civil War hospital.
Built in 1822 on Daniel Garber’s land, the Garbers meetinghouse launched a wave of Brethren meetinghouses and remains the oldest still in use by a Valley Brethren congregation.
Formally organized in 1806 around the family of Elder Daniel Miller, Beaver Creek Church has mothered at least 17 daughter congregations and helped found Bridgewater College.
The building where the Cove Mennonite Church worshiped was also used as the Whitmore School. The Cove Church began in 1954. In 2004 the building was moved to the Brethren & Mennonite Heritage Center. There it serves as an example of a one room school that was also used as a Mennonite worship center.
Mennonite work began at Mt. Hermon, on a hill beside Route 259 near the West Virginia–Virginia line, in 1937. The former church is now a private home.
Rooted in the Upper Linville Creek Brethren community that Elder Benjamin Bowman joined in 1792, Greenmount organized separately in 1844 and built its first meetinghouse in 1859.
Brethren congregation along Port Republic Road in eastern Rockingham County, with roots reaching back to 1831 and a meetinghouse built in 1840.
The Bethlehem Stone Church at Tenth Legion represents both Valley eighteenth-century Quaker heritage and nineteenth-century Anabaptist heritage.