Mount Gilboa Chapel

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Mt. Gilboa Chapel
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Location	Oella and Westchester Aves., Oella, Maryland
Coordinates	39°16′29.75″N 76°46′42.9″W / 39.2749306°N 76.778583°W / 39.2749306; -76.778583Coordinates: 39°16′29.75″N 76°46′42.9″W / 39.2749306°N 76.778583°W / 39.2749306; -76.778583
Built	1859
Architect	Unknown
Architectural style	No Style Listed
Governing body	Private
NRHP Reference #	76000978^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 21, 1976

Mt. Gilboa Chapel is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church located at Oella, Baltimore County, Maryland. It is a small stone church measuring 28 feet by 42 feet, built about 1859 by free African Americans. The front façade is ashlar masonry, but the sides and rear are of rubble.

The building is the replacement of an earlier log chapel of unknown origin. It is possible that neighbor Benjamin Banneker attended services in such a log building.^[2] An obelisk that the Maryland Bicentennial Commission and the State Commission on Afro American History and Culture erected in 1977 to commemorate Banneker stands in the church's yard near his unmarked grave.^[3]

The chapel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
↑ "Maryland Historical Trust". Mt. Gilboa Chapel, Baltimore County. Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-11-21.
↑ (1) "Benjamin Banneker" marker in website of hmdb.org: The Historical Marker Database. Retrieved 2008-08-27.
(2) "Mount Gilboa Chapel". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2010-08-10.
(3) Coordinates of Benjamim Banneker obelisk: 39°16′30″N 76°46′44″W / 39.2749641°N 76.778807°W / 39.2749641; -76.778807 (Benjamin Banneker obelisk)

External links

Mt. Gilboa Chapel, Baltimore County, including photo from 1975, at Maryland Historical Trust

v t e U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Maryland

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