Longs Chapel

Historic church in Virginia, United States
United States historic place
Longs Chapel
Virginia Landmarks Register
Front and western side
38°30′45″N 78°45′44″W / 38.51250°N 78.76222°W / 38.51250; -78.76222
Area0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built1871 (1871)
Built byJacob Long, T.J. Orndorff
NRHP reference No.06001042[1]
VLR No.082-5264
Significant dates
Added to NRHPNovember 15, 2006
Designated VLRSeptember 6, 2006[2]

Longs Chapel, also known as Old Athens Church and Athens Colored School, is a historic Church of the United Brethren in Christ church and cemetery located at Zenda near Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia. It was built about 1871, and is a small, one-story, frame structure with a standard gable-fronted nave form with weatherboard siding, metal roofing, stone foundation piers, a small belfry, and an apse added about 1900. It measures approximately 20 feet by 30 feet. The cemetery includes multiple grave depressions, fieldstone tombstones, and a number of professionally carved marble monuments. The church also housed a one-room school for African-American children where Harrisonburg educator Lucy F. Simms had her first teaching post in 1877.[3] The school at Zenda closed in 1925 and the last services at Longs Chapel were held in the late 1920s. The building was subsequently used as a hay barn. The last burial was in 1935.[4]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ^ MacAllister, Dale E. (2020). Lucy Frances Simms: From Slavery to Revered Public Service. Lot's Wife Publishing Company. p. 305. ISBN 9781934368497.
  4. ^ J. Daniel Pezzoni (May 2006). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Longs Chapel" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying four photos
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