Ebenezer Cemetery - Great Mills MD - Churchyard Cemeteries on Waymarking.com

The front steps, an overgrown walkway and the cemetery are the only vestiges left of the oldest church in St. Mary's County, Maryland. The Ebenezer Methodist Church was built in 1820 and was the 'Mother Church of Methodism in the St. Mary's Circuit'.

The church was closed at the end of World War II and merged with the Cedar Point M. E. Church congregation to form the post-war Lexington Park United Methodist Church. The Cedar Point Church had been demolished when the U.S. Navy built the Patuxent River Naval Air Station at the beginning of WWII and most of those graves were moved to the Ebenezer cemetery.

Today, a marker and silver cross mark the location of the old Ebenezer Church, but the cemetery remains active. It is now affiliated with the Lexington Park United Methodist Church.

References:

• Find A Grave: Ebenezer United Methodist Cemetery
• RootsWeb: MDSTMARY-L Archives

Name of church or churchyard: Ebenezer Cemetery (Lexington Park United Methodist Church) Approximate Size: Large (100+)

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