Location: Silver Creek & Witmer's Roads, Union township,
Snyder County, PA

Directions:
Silver Creek Road leaves Main Street (the old US 11-15) at the southern end of Port Trevorton. Go west 1.5 miles on Silver Creek Road to the intersection with Witmer Road. The site of the church is now part of that intersection.

Historic Conference:
Allegheny Conference of the United Brethren Church

Brief History:
The building that stood here was erected in 1856 by members of the Evangelical Association who withdrew from the nearby Witmers church because of a dispute. That congregation prospered for only a few years. About 1865, the remaining members re-united with the Witmers congregation and the building was sold to the United Brethren class meeting in the area. The United Brethren closed the church in 1904, and it was torn down for road relocation purposes about 1919.
The Susquehanna circuit of the United Brethren Church existed for almost 100 years. It was established in 1854 and continued until the dismantling of the Allegheny Conference in 1951. While various other churches were on the circuit from time to time, there were seven main churches that kept the charge together. Six of those appointments formed the original circuit ¯Cross Roads [ Zion], Hoffer [Paradise] Independence [Chapman St. John's], Grainery [St. Thomas], Mahantango [St. Paul's, in Juniata County], McKees [McKees Half Falls Trinity] ¯ and the seventh, which became the main church, Port Trevorton Markwood, was formed later. While various denominational and congregational mergers have reconfigured the region so that none of the seven exits any more as a distinct congregation, they continue in ministry as parts of local United Methodist congregations.

Final disposition:
The original church site is within the relocated intersection. The cemetery is on the hill in the distance, on the right ride of the road.