Edinburg United Church held its bicentennial celebration this weekend

Edinburg United Church pictured in an 1848 photo

Edinburg United Church held its bicentennial celebration this weekend

- Wendy DiAlesandro

Edinburg United Church, founded in 1823, celebrated its 200th birthday with a service and picnic on May 21. The church is located at 4081 Rock Spring Road.

Before the Edinburg United Church was united — back when the town was called Eddyburg — there were two congregations: a Congregationalist church, formed in 1823, and a Methodist church, organized in 1826. According to the church’s printed history, the two united under one roof for the first time in the early 1920s, seemingly as a matter of logistics.

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