White Oak Church
White Oak Church | |
 White Oak Church around 1861 | |
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| Location | 8 Caisson Rd., Falmouth, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 38°18′1″N 77°22′33″W / 38.30028°N 77.37583°W |
| Area | 1.2 acres (0.49 ha) |
| NRHP reference No. | 90002112[1] |
| VLR No. | 089-0076 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | January 3, 1991 |
| Designated VLR | August 21, 1990[2] |
White Oak Church, also known as White Oak Baptist Church and White Oak Primitive Baptist Church, is a historic Primitive Baptist church located off White Oak Road in Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia. It was built sometime between 1789 and 1835, and is a rectangular frame structure sheathed in weatherboard. Also on the property are a contributing woodshed, men's and women's outhouses, and two cemeteries.[3]
During the Civil War in November 1862, White Oak Church became the center, for seven months, of an encampment of the Army of the Potomac. Around 20,000 soldiers of the VI Corps camped in the immediate area. At this time, the church served as a military hospital, a United States Christian Commission station, and as a photographic studio.[4]
After the Civil War, some descendants of soldiers in the 15th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry made reunion trips to the Fredericksburg battlefields and White Oak Church. The reunion group included, J. Frank Lindsley; Henry B. Hoffman; his brother, Dr. Joseph R. Hoffman; Judge John B. Vreeland, a state senator from New Jersey; and Thomas B. Ironside. They aided in the repair of the church.[5]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
- ^ Eirik Harteis and John S. Salmon (July 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: White Oak Church" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
- ^ "White Oak Church 'Seems to Have Belonged to some Former Age'". hmdb.org.
- ^ Lee, Woolf (May 2, 2006). "White Oak has link to Yankees". The Free Lance-Star. Archived from the original on April 6, 2012.
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