All FaithWays

Faith Ways are the ways that people on the Lower Eastern Shore have traditionally worshiped. This category includes churches and other places of worship as well as cemeteries and graveyards.

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    CHARLES H. CHIPMAN CULTURAL CENTER

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    Built in 1838, the Chipman Center is the oldest standing African-American church on Delmarva. It occupies the site of a former open meadow where slaves gathered for worship services conducted by Methodist circuit riders. In 1837 five local freedmen began holding services in a small red-pine slab building on the property of William Williams. Funds were raised to purchase the Read more...
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    Parsons Cemetery

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    Parsons Cemetery in Salisbury, Maryland is an historic operational cemetery, an urban green space, an outdoor museum, and in the words of architectural historian, Keith Eggener, a place where “life meets death, nature meets city, and present meets past.” The site offers self-guided walking tours based on their on-going historical and genealogical research, maintains the 18 acres of sacred grounds Read more...