Old Frazer Mennonite Church Cemetery
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Old Frazer Mennonite Church Cemetery

Frazer, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA

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    Frazer, Pennsylvania 19355 United States
    Coordinates: 40.03607, -75.56092
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The earliest Mennonites in the Chester Valley vicinity met at Diamond Rock beginning in the early 19th century until the 1860s. Over forty years after that congregation disbanded and the meetinghouse closed, services were reopened at Diamond Rock in June, 1908 and were held there every two weeks.

A growing congregation meant that a new home was needed, and in the latter part of 1909 steps were taken to secure a more central place of worship. In May 1910, the congregation left the old Diamond Rock Meeting for a rented schoolhouse in Frazer, on the north side of Lancaster Pike.

About the year 1916, efforts began to secure a more permanent home for the congregation, and in the spring of 1917, a new wood-frame church building and a cemetery were dedicated on the southeast corner of Sproul Road and the Lancaster Turnpike.

In 1961, the church expanded again and constructed a new house of worship down the road and established a new cemetery there. Though a few burials were made in previously purchased plots in this old cemetery, nearly all modern burials after 1961 have been at the new location.

The meetinghouse at this location temporarily served as a meeting place for the Grace Lutheran Church before it was torn down ca. 1966.

Today, the cemetery is enclosed by a chain-link fence and is located between a mobile-home park and a shopping center. Access is through a gate in the latter's parking lot.









The earliest Mennonites in the Chester Valley vicinity met at Diamond Rock beginning in the early 19th century until the 1860s. Over forty years after that congregation disbanded and the meetinghouse closed, services were reopened at Diamond Rock in June, 1908 and were held there every two weeks.

A growing congregation meant that a new home was needed, and in the latter part of 1909 steps were taken to secure a more central place of worship. In May 1910, the congregation left the old Diamond Rock Meeting for a rented schoolhouse in Frazer, on the north side of Lancaster Pike.

About the year 1916, efforts began to secure a more permanent home for the congregation, and in the spring of 1917, a new wood-frame church building and a cemetery were dedicated on the southeast corner of Sproul Road and the Lancaster Turnpike.

In 1961, the church expanded again and constructed a new house of worship down the road and established a new cemetery there. Though a few burials were made in previously purchased plots in this old cemetery, nearly all modern burials after 1961 have been at the new location.

The meetinghouse at this location temporarily served as a meeting place for the Grace Lutheran Church before it was torn down ca. 1966.

Today, the cemetery is enclosed by a chain-link fence and is located between a mobile-home park and a shopping center. Access is through a gate in the latter's parking lot.









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  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2730492