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Elk Run Meeting House

This heavy timber frame and brick structure served as a Mennonite and Dunkard meeting house at the Mill Creek community in Leaksville, Page County, three miles from present site.

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

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