A little over a decade after the close of the violence and trauma imposed by the Civil War came a new institution of healing for Moorefield and the surrounding region. The Protestant Episcopal Church established Emmanuel Parish, hiving it off of the Hampshire Parish based in Romney.
Over six years, the parishioners with no church endeavored to construct one. As described on a historical pamphlet produced by the church “Josiah Dent, Esq. of Georgetown, D.C. donated a large tract of mountain land for the purpose of building a church and a parish school.”
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