City - Salisbury State - MD Country - United States
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The History of Trinity United Methodist Church:At the end of the Civil War in 1865, the healing of divided loyalties came slowly. In Salisbury, a year later, eight men withdrew from the Methodist Episcopal Church, driven by the desire to worship God as they saw fit. Accordingly, they set in motion the steps that would eventually establish Trinity Church. They sent a petition to the Virginia Conference asking for the presiding elder of the Norfolk District, the Reverend Dr. M. Lecato, to visit them for that purpose. A serious minded young teen-aged girl, Miss Nannie Rider, heard of the meeting and attended the discussions. Her intense interest and dedication to the formation of the new church won her the distinction of being the only woman present at that historic occasion, which brought Southern Methodism to the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Later, as the wife of Maryland’s governor Elihu E. Jackson, she would be the moving force in providing Trinity with its present sanctuary in 1905 as well as the Jackson Memorial Building in 1930.
The founding fathers, James Cannon, Hugh Jackson, William B. Tilghman, Isaac Jackson, Henry Brewington, Levin J. Dashiell, William W. Gordy and Levin Dorman had plans drawn up for the first Southern Methodist Chapel, a modest wooden structure to be built on the northwest corner of Bond and Water Streets. A pastor was obtained, the aforementioned Rev. Dr. Lecato. Regular worship began and the congregation grew to thirty-three within a year. By 1885 the number had more than doubled, reaching seventy-seven members. During the difficult days of the Reconstruction the little congregation was sustained by its faith and the closeness of its members in fellowship and purpose.
Trinity was to be tried by fire three times in its history. In 1885, the first building burned. It was quickly rebuilt, only to be reduced to ashes by the Great Salisbury Fire in 1886. Not to be discouraged, Trinity members worshiped for a time in the Court House. Then, through the kindness of a neighboring congregation they met in the Presbyterian Auditorium. By 1887, the third building was erected. Later it would become the church home of the St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic congregation.
You took this building exactly in the right perspective with the wide-angle, it looks very balanced .. perhaps sharpness had a little suffered under the resizing .. regards, Peter
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