Octorara United Presbyterian Cemetery in Quarryville, Pennsylvania

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Get directions North side of Valley Road (Rt. 372)
Quarryville, Pennsylvania, USA

Coordinates: 39.91946, -76.08784
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Adjoins the Octorara Presbyterian Church (Associate or Convenantor Church, original United Presbyterian).
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.