Hartwood Presbyterian Church

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Organized in June 1825 by the Winchester Presbytery as Yellow Chapel Church, the brick church was constructed between 1857 and 1859. It became Hartwood Presbyterian Church in 1868. During the Civil War an engagement took place here on 25 Feb. 1863. Confederate Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, commanding detachments of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Virginia Cavalry Regiments, defeated a Union force and captured 150 men. The interior wooden elements and furnishings of the church suffered considerable damage during the war, but were replaced. The building was listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 and it is an American Presbyterian Reformed Historical Site.

Department of Historic Resources, 2004

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

American Presbyterian/Reformed Historic Sites Registry, http://history.pcusa.org/pres_hist/hist_sites_synod.html#mid-atlantic, 25 Aug. 2004; Hartwood Presbyterian Church, National Register of Historic Places Archives File (89-82), DHR; E. B. Long with Barbara Long, The Civil War Day by Day; An Almanac, 1861-1865 (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971), 323; Calder Loth, ed., The Virginia Landmarks Register, 4th. ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), 502; The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Prepared Under the Direction of the Secretary of War by Robert N. Scott. 129 Vols. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889-1901), 25(Part I): 25.