Octorara United Presbyterian Cemetery
Quarryville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Get directions North side of Valley Road (Rt. 372)
Quarryville, Pennsylvania, USACoordinates: 39.91946, -76.08784 - Cemetery ID:
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1754 - Organized by Associate Church of Scotland (Covenantor or Seceder Presbyterians) and first church built.
1849-1850 - Present church built.
1858 - Denomination adopted the name of United Presbyterian Church.
1917 - Services discontinued at this location.
1926 - Church organization chartered by Lancaster County corts.
1939 - Site taken over by United Presbyterian General Assembly as a national religious shrine, as the mother church of all Scots Presbyterian churches in United States.
1941 - Congregation officially disbanded by Philadelphia Presbytery.
SOURCE: Book - Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, by A. Hunter Rineer, Jr., Published in 1993. Lists locations and description of Cemeteries & Churches.
NOTE: This Cemetery is listed right under Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church on the South side of Valley Road (Rt. 372) and from the location it must be just across the road.
1754 - Organized by Associate Church of Scotland (Covenantor or Seceder Presbyterians) and first church built.
1849-1850 - Present church built.
1858 - Denomination adopted the name of United Presbyterian Church.
1917 - Services discontinued at this location.
1926 - Church organization chartered by Lancaster County corts.
1939 - Site taken over by United Presbyterian General Assembly as a national religious shrine, as the mother church of all Scots Presbyterian churches in United States.
1941 - Congregation officially disbanded by Philadelphia Presbytery.
SOURCE: Book - Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, by A. Hunter Rineer, Jr., Published in 1993. Lists locations and description of Cemeteries & Churches.
NOTE: This Cemetery is listed right under Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church on the South side of Valley Road (Rt. 372) and from the location it must be just across the road.
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- Added: 5 Dec 2009
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2333767
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