Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Cemetery in Unionville, Pennsylvania

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Get directions 139 East Doe Run Rd
Unionville, Pennsylvania 19348 United States

Coordinates: 39.88888, -75.71380
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Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church was established ca. 1839, when Martin and Antonia Bosinger deeded in trust a ¾-acre parcel of land in trust to Samuel C. and Caesar Glasgow, William Taylor, and Jonathan Bovard, "trustees of the African Methodist Episcopal Church called Ebenezer." In 1840, the same trustees deeded all but ¼ acre to Benjamin H. Cook. At some point, the congregation reacquired the land and a brick church was built (which gave rise to a local nickname of the "Unionville Brick Meetinghouse."

The church was popular and thriving; one person remembered, half a century later, that Bayard Taylor had spoken at the church, and other lectures were held there as well. Services were being held there well into the 1910s. The church stood until the 1960s when it was torn down. The cemetery remains, and in 1988 the parcel was reconfirmed as the property of the A.M.E. Church.