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United Methodist Collection: Local Church Histories

The Virginia Wesleyan University United Methodist Collection functions as a repository for publications relating to the history and workings of the United Methodist Church.

Local Church Histories

A Watermelon for God, A History of Trinity United Methodist Church, 1774-1974 (Alexandria, Virginia) 

A History of the Fredericksburg United Methodist Church ,1802-1975

A History of the Market Street United Methodist Church, 1772-1953, Methodism in Winchester, Virginia

A History of the First United Methodist Church of Lynchburg, Virginia, 1828-1988, with Genealogical Index and Descriptions of the Church Archives, 1992, James Siddons, Ph.D. (ed.)

An Ancient Stand of Methodism: Oak Grove United Methodist Church, Chesapeake, VA 1770-1970, 1970, Eleanor Phillips Cross

Castings from the Foundry Mold: A History of Foundry Church Washington, D.C. 1814-1964, 1968, Homer L Calkin

Centenary United Methodist Church -- Remembering Our Past . . . Anticipating Our Future (Lynchburg, Virginia)

Centenary United Methodist Church -- Historical Sites Related To (Lynchburg, Virginia)

Charity: Its Past and Its People, 1974, Barbara Murden Henley and Susan Brown Flanagan (Tidewater, Virginia)

Culpeper United Methodist Church, 1847-2007 --The Lord's Work in Action (Culpeper, Virginia)

History in a Horseshoe Curve; The Story of Sudley Methodist Church and Its Community, 1982, Elizabeth Harrover Johnson; E.R. Conner III; Mary Harrover Ferguson (Sudley, Virginia)

In This Place I Delivered My Soul, The Methodists of Charles City, Virginia, 1995, Judith F. Ledbetter

Methodism In Warrenton, 1980, A History of the Warrenton Circuit and the Warenton United Methodist Church (Warrenton, Virginia)

Norview United Methodist Church: History of the Church and Member's Memories, (90th Anniversary)

Pilgrimages of Faith: Histories of the Churches in the Vienna, Virginia Community, 1990, David L. Meyer and James L. Vining

Thalia United Methodist Chruch, Celebrating 60 years, DVD

The History and People of Grace United Methodist Church, 1867-1997 (Manassas, Virginia)

The Methodists of Barton Heights, 1892-1978, (Richmond, Va.) 

The Story of a Church: A History of Washington Street Church, 1773-1923, (Methodist Episcopal Church, South), P.H. Drewry, B.A.

The Genesis and Exodus of Calvary, 1879-1988, Calvary United Methodist Church, Danville, Va.,

Washington Street United Methodist Church, 1849-1974 (Alexandria, Virginia)