Capon Chapel and its cemetery are located one and a half miles south of Capon Bridge in Hampshire County, West Virginia on Christian Church Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 13). A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. Capon Bridge is a town located in eastern Hampshire County, West Virginia along the Northwestern Turnpike ( U Hampshire County is a County located in the US state of West Virginia. West Virginia ( is a state in the Appalachian Upland South, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, bordered by
Early settlers in the Cacapon River Valley congregated on this exact site for religious occasions and family burials beneath an ancient oak tree. The Cacapon River, located in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia 's Eastern Panhandle region is a beautiful and scenic river known for its outstanding The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of about 400 species of Trees and Shrubs in the Genus Quercus (from Latin The log structure chapel was then constructed in the 1750s, and remains intact beneath a layer of white painted boards that have constantly been maintained and refurbished over the past two hundred years. Events and Trends Scientific Navigation is developed The Seven Years' War ( 1756 - 1763) fought between two rival alliances The structure is one of the three oldest church structures in the county.
Capon Chapel's cemetery contains the graves of early Cacapon Valley settlers, slaves, and soldiers from both sides of the American Civil War. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South The earliest graves on the chapel grounds are from the late 1700s and are located in the chapel's lawn area, but their fieldstone markers have since been lost over the past two and a half centuries.
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References
- USGS GNIS: Capon Chapel
- USGS GNIS: Capon Chapel Cemetery
- Brannon, Selden W. This is a complete list of historic sites in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States. (ed. ) Historic Hampshire: A Symposium of Hampshire County and Its People, Past and Present. Parsons, West Virginia: McClain Printing, 1976. p127
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