Lebanon Church

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The Campbellite congregation now associated with Lebanon Church was established about 1825. These followers of prominent religious leader Alexander Campbell originally shared the Chiskiack “Cheesecake” Church in York County with other denominations. Friction with another sect using “Cheesecake” Church prompted the Lebanon congregation to move to Warwick County by 1848. The brick chapel was constructed here in 1859. Confederate General J. B. Magruder stationed cavalry at this strategic crossroads from Jan. through Apr. 1862. Union General W. F. Smith briefly had his headquarters here on 4 May 1862, en route to the Battle of Williamsburg. Union troops occupying the Peninsula continued to be stationed here until 1864.

Department of Historic Resources, 2005

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Campbellite and Restorationist Traditions in the South,” http://www.bible.acu.edu/crs/doc/cblt.htm, 28 April 2005; Henry Jackson Darst, Ante-bellum Virginia Disciples; an Account of the Emergence and Early Development of the Disciples of Christ in Virginia (Richmond, Va.: Virginia Christian Missionary Society, 1959), 1-13, 45-46; Lebanon Church & Cemetery, Virginia Department of Historic Resources Archives File (121-5003), Richmond, Virginia; John T. Kneebone, J. Jefferson Looney, Brent Tarter, and Sandra Gioia Treadway, eds., Dictionary of Virginia Biography (2 vols.; Richmond, Va., The Library of Virginia, 1998- ), 2:550-553; George Carrington Mason, Colonial Churches of Tidewater Virginia (Richmond, Va.: Whittet and Shepperson, 1945), 229; Janice Sanders, A history of Lebanon Church of Christ: Lee Hall, Virginia (Newport News, Va.: Lebanon Church of Christ, 1987); 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).