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EWP 16 CHurches002
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Virginia
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1011395
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1011395_EWP_CHurches002.jpg
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2024-01-07
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/Volumes/T7 Shield/EWP/Elements/EWP_Files/Access Files/Upload temp/1011395_EWP_CHurches002.jpg
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Digitized by Edwin Washington Project
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Loudoun County Public Schools
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English
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Wednesday, Augusi 28, 1991
Several churches served old Conklin
By Eugene Scheel
: Times-Mirror Contributing Writer
The Fairview Methodist Church at Conklin
Wwas named for its fair view, looking westward
across the Bull Run Valley and to the Bull Run
Mountain. ; (
‘ BALF
triustee of tho 1 Fni
~ sold the building for $500.
/Conklin’s second church, Prosperity, bears the
date stone: “Prosperity Baptist Church, July 30,
1899.”
The ‘new’ school Baptist Church, as opposed
to those of the ‘old’ school;“believed in paid min-
isters, Sunday school for children,
missionaries, and accompanied musie.
It stood on land donated by
Charles Dean, and was part of a 142-
acre tract willed to Dean by Thomas
Settle in 1889, in honor of Martha
Dean, possibly Charle’s aunt or 1
trusted servant of Settle’s.
One of Charle’s three sisters was
the noted black missionary and cru-
sader, Jennie Dean.
ii u\)uuu,
Pl O
+ Miss Jennie was born g
\S@e on what would be
the Manassas battlefield,
near Sudley Springs,
Prince William Co
in 1852.
S. Pearson-Pastor. Church Rebuilt-1972, Rev.
N.W. Smith Pastor.”
Miss Jennie ,
Miss Jennie, a crusadar for piohtans~n °s until
her death in 1913, aiso raised funds for the Cat,
ry Jnear Catharp
& s N
of that coimt, 5s‘ black hig};As‘c‘flool, 'hé‘Manas‘sgé:s In-
dustrial School, in 1894. Prior to the building of
Douglass High School in Leesburg in 1941, most
eastern and southern Loudoun blacks who at-
AT Q
. tended high school went to the Manassas school.
Miss Jennie’s 1896 pamphlet, “Jennie Dean’s
Rules for Good Behavior Among Her People,” was
a classie, indeed
timely, since the re-
turn of Democratie
control to Virginia
politics in 1890 hea-
ralded the 1902 state
convention that seg-
regated and disenf-
’ ranchised blacks.
The road
It wasn’t until
Miss Jennie, as she was known,
was born a slave on what would be the Manassas
battlefield, near Sudley Springs, Prin i
County, in 1852. : =
It was she who raised funds to.build.Prosper-
ity, with most of the money coming from a Mrs.
Wileox of 15 Holyoke Street, Boston.
A fire of unknown origin hit Prosperity
Church in 1951, but the next year a larger church
was built a bit to the east of the first church. For 20
years the conregation worshiped in the ba_semept,
until the second story, of concrete block with brick
piers, arose in 1972. ‘
The block was stuccoed in 1976. A new date
stone tells the story: “Foundation built-1952, Rev.
nce William
11956 that they paved
the Elk Lick or Conklj t5 from Route.50
i - 1€ road had been known g Rector’s
Road, as that family lived on the ro3 Lpner
reaches in the 1920s. Before that it was called Newr-
Cut Road, one of several ‘New Cuts’ in the county,
for it was first cut through about 1885,
No sign marks the entrance to Conklin. A gen-
tle bump over a wooden bridge crossing Elk Lick
lets travelers know they’ve reached the town. \
Thank you: Rebecca LeVan Stevenson Jackson of
Conklin; Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Byrne of Byrne’s
Cross Roads, Robert F. Byrne of Sterling, and
Mazie Sue Schulz of Royville. -