By action of the 2012 General Conference, there are currently forty-six Heritage Landmarks of The United Methodist Church. Five new Heritage Landmarks were designated by the General Conference with three outside the United States. These are in the Philippines, Zimbabwe, and Liberia. The Book of Discipline defines a Heritage Landmark as “a building, location, or structure specifically related to significant events, developments, or personalities in the overall history of The United Methodist Church or its antecedents.”
The Heritage Landmarks of United Methodism remind us of those people and events that have shaped our history. They are tangible reminders of our heritage and their preservation helps keep our denominational legacy alive. For further information about the forty-six Heritage Landmarks or to learn how a place becomes so designated, please contact the General Secretary, General Commission on Archives and History, P.O. Box 127, Madison, NJ 07940 or email rwilliams@gcah.org.
Material in this guide may be copied by local churches, Heritage Landmarks, and other agencies of The United Methodist Church without further approval.
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Introduction: Look to the rock from which you were hewn… The United Methodist Story in its Heritage Landmarks
Heritage Landmarks:
ALABAMA
Asbury Manual Labor School/Mission, Fort Mitchell
DELAWARE
Barratt’s Chapel and Museum, Frederica
FLORIDA
Bethune-Cookman College/Foundation, Daytona Beach
GEORGIA
Town of Oxford, Oxford
John Wesley’s American Parish, Savannah
St. Simons Island, St. Simons Island
Wesleyan College Cluster, Macon
ILLINOIS
Peter Cartwright Church, Pleasant Plains
Wesley Foundation, University of Illinois, Champaign
KENTUCKY
Site of the Organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Louisville
MAINE
Cox Memorial United Methodist Church, Hallowell
MARYLAND
Old Otterbein Church, Baltimore
Robert Strawbridge House, New Windsor
Cokesbury College Site, Abingdon
Lovely Lane Meetinghouse Site, Baltimore
United Brethren Founding Sites Cluster, Frederick and Washington Counties
MASSACHUSETTS
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Boston
MISSOURI
Old McKendree Chapel, near Jackson
NEW YORK
John Street Church, New York City
New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn
NORTH CAROLINA
Green Hill House, Louisburg
Whitaker’s Chapel, Enfield
OHIO
Bishop John Seybert/Flat Rock Cluster, near Flat Rock
Hanby House, Westerville
Wyandott Indian Mission, Upper Sandusky
OKLAHOMA
Newtown Indian United Methodist Church, Okmulgee
OREGON
Willamette Mission Site, near Salem
PENNSYLVANIA
Albright Chapel, Kleinfeltersville
Boehm’s Chapel, Willow Street
First Church Building and Publishing House, Evangelical Association, New Berlin
First United Methodist Church, Johnstown
Isaac Long’s Barn, Landis Valley, Lititz
St. George’s Church, Philadelphia
Simpson House “Olde Main Building,” Philadelphia
Zoar United Methodist Church, Philadelphia
SOUTH DAKOTA
Deadwood Cluster, Deadwood
TENNESSEE
Acuff’s Chapel, Blountville
Edward Cox House, Bluff City
TEXAS
McMahan Chapel, San Augustine
Rutersville Cluster, Rutersville
VIRGINIA
Keywood Marker, Glade Spring
Old Stone Church Site, Leesburg
WEST VIRGINIA
Rehoboth Church and Museum, Union
LIBERIA
College of West Africa, Monrovia
PHILIPPINES
Mary Johnston Hospital, Manila
ZIMBABWE
Old Mutare Mission
UNITED METHODIST HISTORIC SITES
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