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UNITED METHODIST CHURCH  
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1198 Claremont Road
Carlisle, PA.  17013


Sunday Worship Service:        8:20  a.m.

Letort (EV, 1832), is located on Claremont (Farm) Road, just east of Carlisle, PA., near Drytown. This congregation began during a camp meeting held near Mount Rock in 1832 by Rev. Joseph M. Saylor. Several prominent area families attended the meetings and invited Rev. Saylor to return with them east of Carlisle to preach. The David Kutz, Jacob Kutz, Christian Ruhl and John Kratzer families were converted and Rev. Saylor continued to preach in their homes until the end of the conference year. The first brick church was erected in 1841, near the site of the present church, on land donated by David Kutz and was the location of the EV Annual Conferences of 1843 and 1846. Jacob Boas, pioneer EV evangelist and organizer of Carlisle (First) and New Kingstown congregations married the daughter of David Kutz and is buried in the Letort Cemetery (AKA Kutz Church Cemetery). The present church (shown above) was erected in 1872 .

The Letort Board of Trustees are the owner and administrator of the Letort Cemetery (Old Kutz Cemetery) that covers nearly eleven acres.  The Letort Cemetery Association was incorporated in 1997 to ensure perpetual cemetery care.  The Board of Directors is comprised of church officials and residents of the community. The Cemetery Records of Lots and burials have been automated. Copies of the directory can be found at the Church office and Cumberland County Historical Society, Carlisle, PA.