1846
This heavy timber frame and brick structure served as a Mennonite and Dunkard meeting house at the Mill Creek community in Leaksville, Page County. It was moved three miles in one piece to the present site. During the Civil War the building served as a shelter for both Union and Confederate soldiers as attested by their signatures on the interior walls.
“Passed through Luray at 4 p.m. Stopped for the night at the Dunker Church. Got straw for beds.”
Excerpt from Billy Davies, 7th Indiana Co. F., diary of June 1862
Original site before moving Starting restoration after moving structure Moving structure with roof removed Interior with original stove Original stove from meeting house, cast at the local Isabella Furnace around 1810 Interior with pulpit painted in the style of Johannes Spitler Civil War graffiti Civil War soldiers names on the walls:
Will Robins, Co. C, 7th Reg. Ind. Vol.; Capt. W. C. Bantee, best in the regiment certain;
Lieut. Lvon, Lieut. Luke, L.N. West, mess mates; A. M. Walton, Will Stephens, mess mates; Joseph Deitz, William Hess, William Craig, Will M. Wix, 66th Ohio Reg.; N. N. Titus, 67 Reg. Co. C. O. V., U. S. A.
William Spellman, Co. C, O.V.I., June 7, 1862; William Crervy, 66th Ohio; Jacob Bowers Co. y 14th Reg. B. Ind. Vol. .; Jacob Rosser Co. y Reg. Ind. Vol. 1862; Benj. Engle, Jefferson, Va.; J. Sam’l Harmmel Co. A. 12 Va; Jacob S. Painter Co. A. 12 Div. Cavalry