HISTORY OF HAYGOOD UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
175th Anniversary
Celebration
May 19, 20, 2007
- 1607 Jamestown
founded
- 1624 Virginia
created as a royal colony
- 1703 John Wesley
is born
- 1738 Wesleys
Aldersgate Experience
- 1776 Declaration
of Independence
- 1781
Revolutionary War ends
- 1784 Methodist
Episcopal Church established in United States
- 1787 U. S.
Constitution is ratified
- 1800 United
Brethren in Christ Church established
- 1832 The First
Church: Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Church established in Princess Anne
County
- 1842 Old Donation
Episcopal Church congregation closes
- 1844 Church
split; Name changed to Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Church, South
- 1861 Civil War
begins
- 1865 Civil War
ends
- 1868 Second
Ebenezer Church sanctuary built
- 1886 Festival
Hall (Little Red Schoolhouse) built
- 1890 Atticus
Haygood elected Bishop of Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Atlanta
- 1896 Second
church building moved off site to become parsonage; New church (present
chapel) built; Name changed to Haygood Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church,
South
- 1917 U.S. enters
World War I
- 1918 World War I
ends
- 1939 Churches
merge and church becomes Haygood Memorial Methodist Church
- 1941 U. S. enters
World War II
- 1943 Sunday
School building added to Chapel
- 1945 World War II
ends; Festival Hall is removed
- 1948 Second
parsonage is built
- 1956 Brick Sunday
School wing is built
- 1964 Present
brick Sanctuary is built
- 1968 Third
parsonage is built; Merged churches form the United Methodist Church
- 1982 Haygoods
150th Anniversary celebrated
- 1985 Sunday School
building removed; office and Sunday School wings added
- 1992 Renovation
of Chapel started
- 1996 100th
Anniversary of the Third Church (the Chapel) was celebrated
- 2007 175th
Anniversary of Ebenezer-Haygood congregation celebrated