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From: "David Roberts" <>
Subject: Zion UMC/Zion's Fair M. E. Church
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:36:42 -0400

I saw in the paper that Zion UMC, Hermanville, Lexington Park, was celebrating its 125th year w/ a "Prayer Breakfast" last Saturday.

I believe Zion's Fair Methodist Episcopal was established by veterans of the United States Colored Troops after the Civil War. 125 years makes the date they are celebrating 1880.

Zion's Fair may have been an outgrowth of the now defunct Pisgah M. E. Church in Park Hall. After the Civil War, many of the black members of "white" M. E. churches established their own churches. I believe Zion's Fair bought the chapel used by Pisgah after Pisgah folded.

Two "white" M. E. churches in that general part of St. Mary's County have disappeared and have been succeeded by black M. E. [now United Methodist] congregations: Bethesda M. E. - taken over by the blacks in 1885 & now still Bethesda UMC and Pisgah M. E. - which seems to have replaced by Zion's Fair M. E. now Zion UMC.

David

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