WV-028 Ruins of St. Georges Chapel

Marker text: RUINS OF ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL

This chapel was built by devout people of (then) Frederick Parish, Frederick County, Virginia who joined Col. Robert Worthington in completing it in 1769. It was first called English Church, then Berkeley Church, then Norborne Chapel, as the parish was Norborne, 1770-1815. The Rev. Daniel Sturgis was its first minister of record, 1771-1785. The Washington, Nourse, Davenport, and Throckmorton families worshiped here.

West Virginia Department of Archives and History, 1970