Long's Chapel and Zenda
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Markerman62
N 38° 30.766 W 078° 45.805
17S E 695002 N 4265080
Located north of Harrisonburg on CR 811
Waymark Code: WM16QPZ
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 09/18/2022
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Long's Chapel was built in 1870, a year after William and Hannah Carpenter and the Church of the United Brethren in Christ deeded land here "to colored people… for … a church, burial ground, and a schoolhouse." Henry Carter, Milton Grant, William Timbers, and Richard Fortune, all formerly enslaved, owned two-acre "home plots" where the community of Zenda grew to 17 households of 80 people by 1900. The school, where notable Harrisonburg educator Lucy Simms began her career, closed in 1925. In Zenda, blacks freely exercised new rights to worship, marriage, education, property, and burial in a marked gravesite.
Department of Historic Resources, 2008
Marker Number: D-1a
Marker Title: Long's Chapel and Zenda
Marker Location: On Fridley's Gap Road (CR 811), east of Indian Trail Road (CR 717)
County or Independent City: Rockingham County
Web Site: Not listed
Marker Program Sponsor: Not listed
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