Bakersville is an historic rural crossroads community located where one of the earliest east–west roads through western Maryland crossed the main north–south road from the Sharpsburg area. The region known as Carey's Crossroads for a then prominent landowner George Carey, had become central to the mostly German settlement taking place in southeast Washington County during the mid to late 18th century. The immigrants followed various denominations of the Christian faith and about 1800 joined to erect a union meeting house to be shared by the different groups, primarily Lutheran, German Reformed and Methodist Episcopal. The church and graveyard were built on land provided by George Carey (Garrick). In 1823 the group had outgrown the log church and a stone sanctuary and schoolhouse was built to replace it. The population had grown enough for the churches to separate by 1854 and Salem Luthe…
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A history of Washington County, Maryland from the earliest settlements to the present time, including a history of Hagerstown1906 · page 492Read the page →
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whom this congregation was organized there is not a record to tell. All we have is that the Rev. John Rebaugh preached at "Cross Roads" and several old members remember hearing him at Bakersville and that he preached there regularly. From what we can learn, the stone building, standing west of the Lutheran Church at Bakersville, now used for pub¬ lic school purposes, was originally a church, owned
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