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Tuscarora Presbyterian Church History Link

 

Tuscarora Meetinghouse was begun in 1737 when Presbyterian lay speaker, William Williams, appeared before the county court in Orange County, Virginia,  declaring his intention to hold meetings at two points in the northern Shenandoah Valley close to the Potomac River, one being Tuscarora, still today on that same hill.  Tuscarora Presbyterian Church officially came into existence in 1740 as a member of the Donegal Presbytery. Two log structures were built before the current stone structure was built in 1803.

Tuscarora has survived good times and bad, happy times and sad, war and peace, and thrived because it has been willing to change, willing to welcome new members, willing to share leadership roles, to follow Christ’s call to love our neighbors and Christ’s commission to go out into the world, and willing to take a chance on the future, at the same time keeping our roots deep in the rich history of the past.