John Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery Warm Springs, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places Data
John Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 13000987
- Date Listed
- December 24, 2013
- Name
- Wesley, John, Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery
- Other Names
- John Wesley United Methodist Church; Wesley Chapel; DHR File No. 008-5030
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- 212 W. Warm Springs
- City/Town
- Warm Springs
- County
- Bath
- State
- Virginia
- Category
- building
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- BLACK; ARCHITECTURE
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
John Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery is locally significant as the lone built representation of the first decades of the African-American settlement at West Warm Springs in Bath County, Virginia. Established after the Civil War, this community was home to many who had traveled to the area to work at The Homestead in Hot Springs, other local springs hotels, the Warm Springs pools, and a variety of associated support occupations for the resort industry. The church was the first religious building in the community for African Americans.
