Churches

The Rev. Nellie G. Small

The Rev. Nellie G. Small, 56, of Beall Street Extended, Frostburg, died Friday, October 17, 1997 at her residence.

Born June 9,1941, in Frostburg, she was the daughter of Mary Ann (Paige) White, Frostburg, and the late Milton L. White. She also was preceded in death by two brothers, Robert and Oliver White; and one sister, Marjorie Anita White.

Bethel A.M.E. Church Relocation Groundbreaking

On Saturday morning, June 25, 2022 over one-hundred people attended the official groundbreaking for the Bethel African American Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church that will soon be relocated to a site in Mountain Lake Park, Maryland.

Boonsboro church pays tribute to former slaves

All eight founding members of St. Mark's Episcopal Church on Lappans Road were slaveholders, and members of the church in the 1800s profited from slave labor. And it is believed that slaves might have helped construct the church.

Smooth, spirit-filled harmonies of rhythmic gospel music sailed from the stage at Bridge of Life Church Saturday as the Friends of the Doleman Black Heritage Museum hosted the fifth annual Doleman Black Heritage Museum Celebration of Black History.

The theme of the celebration was honoring the churches of the historically black neighborhood of Jonathan Street in Hagerstown.

Reggie Turner, interim president of the museum, said the churches represent the community.

Waldon United Methodist Church

Colored Church Being Razed

The abandoned colored church, near the Oakland cemetery, is being razed by Simon Swartzentruber, of Gortner. The lumber will be used to erect a repair shop at his farm home. The property was recently purchased by Mrs. Nellie Maffett in an arrangement with the town so that Fifth street, north of Green street, might be straightened so as to run parallel the entire length of the street. At the present time, should the street be widened, it would cut off the front yard of the Maffett property, adjoining the Episcopal Church.

The Oakland, Maryland A.M.E. Church

Honoring the memory of Presiding Elder Goodwind Douglas
1938-8-11 - 2016-8-20

Pastors Alfred and Carrie Deas

On May 21, 2016 Pastors Alfred and Carrie Elizabeth Deas were honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Allegany County, Maryland NAACP Branch 7007. The following biography appeared in the ceremony program:

Reverend George Claudius Taylor, Oakland and Westernport A.M.E.