Warder Chapel at the West Virginia Industrial School for Boys, Pruntytown, Taylor County, W. Va.
Identifier:
051214
Collection Number:
A&M 1667
Title:
Warder Chapel at the West Virginia Industrial School for Boys, Pruntytown, Taylor County, W. Va.
Date:
1964/01/28
Description:
The chapel was built in what was then Williamsport, Virginia, twenty years before West Virginia became a state. The building served as a Methodist Protestant church until the Union of Methodist Churches in 1939. In 1947, the church and its grounds were sold to the Industrial School and was designated the school's institutional chapel.
Subjects:
Church buildings--West Virginia., Counties--Taylor., West Virginia--Centennial celebrations, etc., Churches., Schools--West Virginia., Methodist church buildings--West Virginia.
Corporate Names:
West Virginia Industrial School for Boys.
Geographic:
Taylor County (W. Va.), Pruntytown (W. Va.)
Acquisition Source:
Centennial Church History Project. County Chairman
