St. Martins Parish, Virginia
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St. Martin's Parish
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History[edit | edit source]
St. Martin's Parish has served Hanover and Louisa counties. Also known as Fork Church and "The Chapel in the Forks."[1]
Founded[edit | edit source]
- 1726[2]
Boundary[edit | edit source]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Meade's 1861 history of St. Martin's Parish is available online.[3]
Rosewell Page's history of The Fork Church, Hanover County, Virginia (1907) has been digitized by Google Books.[4]
Parish Records[edit | edit source]
Colonial parish registers have been lost.[5]
Websites[edit | edit source]
- The Fork Church St. Martin's Parish (official site). History, photographs, cemetery information.
- Fork Church, The Historical Marker Database
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Fork Church Marker, The Historical Marker Database.
- ↑ Freddie Spradlin, "Parishes of Virginia," VAGenWeb, accessed 29 January 2011; Hening's Statutes at Large; Emily J. Salmon and Edward D.C. Campbell Jr., The Hornbook of Virginia History (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1994).
- ↑ William Meade, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1861). Digital versions at Internet Archive: Vol. I and Vol. II.
- ↑ Colonial Churches: A Series of Sketches of Churches in the Original Colony of Virginia (Richmond, Va.: Southern Churchman Co., 1907), 188-194.
- ↑ Colonial Churches: A Series of Sketches of Churches in the Original Colony of Virginia (Richmond, Va.: Southern Churchman Co., 1907), 190.