Christmas Time at Jakes Run Assembly of God Church, Monongalia County, W. Va.
Date:
1906
Description:
A woman positions a cross on the alter, which is decorated in evergreens and ornaments for Christmas. Note the kerosene lamp chandelier to the right. The church is located in the Clay District of Monongalia County.
Mt. Tabor Baptist Church at Laurel Point, Monongalia County, W. Va.
Date:
1933
Description:
'Built in 1803. Great Grandaddy Fox 'Martin Fox' went here to meeting in 1808. He was born Aug. 2, 1790 and died in 1884. Monongalia Papers, Volume 2. Photo taken by Mrs. Gilbert Straight, the first wife, on the J. P. Fox farm. Some people say enlarged for tombstones went back into late 1700's.'
West Warren Baptist Church and Wadestown Methodist Church, Battelle District, Monongalia County, W. Va.
Date:
1949
Description:
The two churches of different denominations stand next to each other on a hill above a covered bridge. West Warren Baptist is on the left, Wadestown Methodist is in the middle, and in the lower right of the image is the covered bridge.
Lynch Chapel Methodist Church, Grant District, Monongalia County, W. Va.
Date:
1960/04
Description:
The church is located on Little Indian Creek. There have been three buildings for the church. The first church was built in 1800. The current church building was built and dedicated in 1901 and it was named for the Lynch family.
Sniders Temple Church, Grant District, Monongalia County, W. Va.
Date:
1960/04
Description:
The church is located in or near Arnettsville. The church was first built as a log meeting house and a Methodist Episcopal preacher ministered at the second church built in 1846. The M.E. South Church was organized at Sniders Temple in 1867. After the Civil War the Snider family gave land to the Northern Methodists for the church in Arnettsville. In 1902 the new church was dedicated.
