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To: Office of the County Executive Date: 04/13/2021______Division Director: Steve______Horn __ Approved: ______From: Kimberly______Golden Brandt ______Division: ___Planning______& Permitting ______Phone #: ______301-600-1144 ______Staff Report Topic: Proposed Listing on County Register of Historic Places – Rocky Springs Chapel and School House (CR # 21-01)

Time Sensitive? Yes □ (if yes, deadline for approval: ______) No □X Action Requested by Executive’s Office: Signature Requested □X OR Information Only □ Staff Report Review: This staff report has been thoroughly reviewed first by the appropriate divisions/agencies noted on Page 2 followed by those outlined below: Name Signature Date Budget Office Kelly Weaver 4/19/2021

Finance Division Erin White 4/19/2021

County Attorney’s Office Kathy L Mitchell 4/19/2021

Refer to County Council? Yes □X No □ (County Attorney’s Office to complete)

Chief Administrative Rick Harcum 4/21/2021 Officer County Executive Jan Gardner 4/22/2021

Forward to Council? Yes □X No □ (County Executive to complete)

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DIVISION OF PLANNING & PERMITTING Steven C. Horn, Division Director Livable Frederick Planning & Design Office Kimberly Golden Brandt, Director

TO: Frederick County Council THROUGH: Jan Gardner, County Executive THROUGH: Steve Horn, Director, Planning & Permitting Division FROM: Kimberly Golden Brandt, Director, Livable Frederick Planning & Design Office DATE: April 13, 2021 SUBJECT: Proposed Listing on County Register of Historic Places – Rocky Springs Chapel and School House (CR # 21-01)

ISSUE:

Should the County Council add the property known as “Rocky Springs Chapel and School House,” located at 7817 Rocky Springs Road, to the Frederick County Register of Historic Places?

BACKGROUND:

The owner of the subject property has made application to list the property known as Rocky Springs Chapel and School House on the Frederick County Register of Historic Places (Attachment 1). The chapel and school house are located on approximately two acres at 7817 Rocky Springs Road, in proximity to the City of Frederick (Attachment 2). The school house was constructed in 1839 and served as a religious meeting house and as Public School House Number 26. The chapel was built in 1882 and utilized continuously for religious and social gatherings until 1982.

Both buildings have association with the Church of the United Brethren in Christ (U.B.), the first Protestant denomination founded in the . According to U.B. history, the U.B. was organized in 1800 in the Rocky Springs area of Frederick County at the home of Frederick Kemp (one mile east of Rocky Springs School House). Frederick Kemp’s farm was routinely used as a gathering place by the founders and early leaders of the U.B., and as soon as the Rocky Springs School House was built, the U.B. congregation moved its religious services and Sunday School there. The schoolhouse was used for both religious and educational purposes for approximately 42 years until the Rocky Springs Chapel was built next door in 1882. After 1882, the school house was used exclusively as a public school until 1930 when it was decommissioned and sold to Rocky Springs Chapel for use as additional meeting space. The chapel served the U.B. congregation until 1909 and continued to serve as a house of worship until 1982 as a Union Church, a congregation consisting of several denominations.

Rocky Springs School House is also significant for its association with a cavalry skirmish on July 8, 1864, just prior to the Battle of Monocacy. According to E.Y. Goldsborough’s book Early's Great Raid, He Advances Through Maryland, Battle of Monocacy, written in 1898, two maps are depicted with Rocky Springs School House. Goldsborough recounts that:

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Our cavalry skirmished with the rebel cavalry during the day (Friday, July 8th), along Catoctin Mountain, near Rocky Springs School House, and the artillery stationed near the city limits on the north side of the road had a spirited fight with a rebel battery on Hagan's Hill, about a mile west of the city…

The property’s associations with the group of people responsible for the organization of the first Protestant denomination to be created in the United States, which spread and expanded across the nation, illustrates how this property is significant for its interest and value in the development of the community and also the development and expansion of religion in the County, State, and Nation. Additionally, the site’s evolution from school-worship house to schoolhouse and adjoining chapel exemplifies the development pattern between public schools and places of worship that existed in the 19th century. Finally, the property’s association with the Civil War and the Battle of Monocacy is a significant event both locally and nationally.

In addition to the historical significance, these two buildings are also good examples of rural 19th century institutional architecture in Frederick County. They both contain few changes to their exteriors, as well as their form and plan. The Rocky Springs School House is a rectangular-shaped, one-story building constructed of stone under what used to be a gable roof. The north gable end is covered with German siding. Six over six wooden window sashes are located in the east and west elevations and one is located in the south elevation. A concrete block addition was added to the rear elevation after 1930.

The Rocky Springs Chapel is also a rectangular-shaped, one-story building but is wood framed and covered in German siding. A standing-seam metal gable roof covers the building with gable returns at the gable ends. A foyer projects from the center bay of the south elevation and is flanked on either side by four-over-four segmental-arched windows. Four bays are located on each of the east and west elevations also containing four-over-four segmental-arched windows. A frame shed addition is located on the north elevation and is also covered in German siding.

The applicant has been working to stabilize the school house and was successful in obtaining a Maryland Heritage Area Authority grant. Work for the first phase of this project was completed in 2020. The applicant was recently awarded a 2021 Maryland Historical Trust Preservation Award for excellence in historic preservation for this work. The applicant is also pursuing a Frederick County Rural Historic Preservation grant in addition to other grants to help stabilize this important structure.

Historic Preservation Commission Review & Recommendation The Historic Preservation Commission (HPC), in February 2021, (Attachments 3 and 4) voted to recommend that the historic site known as Rocky Springs Chapel and School House be listed on the County Register of Historic Places.

In acting upon the application, the HPC determined, pursuant to Section 1-23-6 of the Historic Preservation Ordinance, that the property was eligible for listing on the County Register noting that the property should be designated based upon the following criteria listed in the Ordinance:

 The property has significant character, interest, or value as part of the development, heritage, or cultural characteristics of the County, State, or Nation.

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 The property is the site of an historic event.

 The property is identified with a person, or group of persons, who influenced society.

 The property exemplifies the cultural, economic, social, political, or historic heritage of the County and its communities.

 The property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or architecture.

The HPC included the entirety of the property within the proposed County Register designation. Contributing structures include the chapel and the school house. Once listed on the Register, proposed changes to the exterior of any structure or the site (including any visible site improvements such as driveways, signage, or significant alteration of the landscape) must receive a Certificate of Appropriateness issued by the HPC.

Frederick County Register of Historic Places As of this date, there are fifteen (15) properties listed on the County Register (CR). Listing on the CR is a voluntary action initiated by a property owner or other party with an interest in the property. Special tax credits and county grant funding for preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation expenditures may be available to owners of CR properties. All exterior work undertaken to a CR-listed property must first be approved by the Frederick County Historic Preservation Commission under its Certificate of Appropriateness application process.

RECOMMENDATION:

Staff recommends that the application to list the Rocky Springs Chapel and School House property (CR# 21-01) on the Frederick County Register of Historic Places be forwarded to the County Council for a public hearing and approval.

X Approve? Yes______No______

4/22/2021 ______Jan H. Gardner, County Executive Date Frederick County, Maryland

FINANCIAL IMPACT: No

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ATTACHMENT(S):

Attachment 1 – Application: County Register Nomination Form/Statement of Significance Attachment 2 – Locator Map: Rocky Springs Chapel & School House 7817 Rocky Springs Road Attachment 3 – HPC Meeting Agenda: February 3, 2021 Attachment 4 – HPC Approval Letter to Applicant (2/8/2021)

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HISTORY & SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT ROCKY SPRINGS CHAPEL Rocky Springs Chapel is a one story frame church built about 1882 by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ (U.B.) denomination and is on the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties (MIHP)(Survey No. F-3-96). It has German siding and a projecting foyer addition built during the first quarter of the 20th century. The chapel is located on the northeast side of Rocky Springs Road about 50 yards from the intersection of Kemp Lane, near Frederick (City), Frederick County, Maryland. The chapel faces south toward the road. On the same side of the road adjoining the church lot is Rocky Springs School House, a stone structure built about 1839 and now owned by the trustees of Historic Rocky Springs Chapel, Inc., the nonprofit organization that owns Rocky Springs Chapel. The build date of the chapel is based on land records. The chapel is a good example of a frame rural church of the last quarter of the 19th century in Frederick County. It retains with few changes its exterior and much of its interior appearance and materials. The two major exterior additions, the foyer (added c. 1960) and the frame shed addition on the rear (added c. 1930), are faced with the same siding as the main section of the church.

The chapel is a rectangular hall plan building which had a 3-bay south elevation with a center entrance in its original design. The foyer occupies the center bay, flanked by segmental-arched 4/4 windows with louvered shutters. An oculus window is located in the gable above the foyer. The roof is standing seam metal with cornice returns on the gable ends. The roof of the foyer is composition material. A concrete platform with steps rising from the level of the road and a plain iron railing fronts the foyer. The east and west elevations each have four bays with the same 4/4 windows with segmental arches and shutters as in the south elevation. On the north elevation is a frame shed addition with German siding and 2/2 windows. The roof of the addition is standing seam metal. The interior walls of the chapel are painted plaster and an arched recess is located at the north end of the hall. A pedimented frame outlines the arch. The floor appears to be pine boards. The pews are made of wood and appear to be original to the chapel.

Rocky Springs Chapel is directly associated with the U.B. founding site. The U.B. was organized at Rocky Springs, Frederick County, Maryland on September 25, 1800, at the private home of Frederick Kemp & his son, U.B. Reverend Peter Kemp, which is located one mile east of Rocky Springs Chapel. The U.B. was the first Protestant denomination founded in the United States.

The U.B. is an evangelical Christian denomination formed under the leadership of two German-born clergymen, , who from 1760 to 1765, served as pastor of the Reformed Church in Frederick City, Maryland & , a Mennonite from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, who was expelled from the Mennonite Church for his evangelical exhortations. Combining Mennonite & German Reformed traditions with , the U.B. is uniquely American & has a direct relationship to the mid-18th century German settlement of this region & to the cultural influences of these settlers on the religious history of our nation. Since the Frederick Kemp Farmstead in Rocky Springs (often referred to as the “Peter Kemp House”) was routinely used as a gathering place by the founders & leaders of the U.B. (beginning as early as 1774, according to some church documents) & the church was officially founded there in 1800, it is considered the “Bethlehem” of two world-wide religious denominations (the U.B. & the ). The U.B. movement also helped to spawn other pietistic German American denominations including the Evangelical Church, Churches of God, and the Brethren in Christ.

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The U.B. recognize Rocky Springs Chapel as “the successor of the old Peter Kemp appointment” and The General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church lists Rocky Springs Chapel as a “Heritage Landmark of the United Methodist Church point of interest,” on the “United Brethren Founding Sites Cluster, Frederick and Washington Counties, MD.” Built first as a U.B. house of worship (1882-1909), then used as a church for “union” worship (1909 to about 1982), Rocky Springs Chapel served as the spiritual and social center of Rocky Springs for over 100 years (1882- 1982). The MIHP survey form for the chapel indicates the chapel's areas of significance are architecture and religion (criteria A and C) and the level of significance as “local.” However, the chapel's direct association with the founding site of the U.B., by being recognized as “the successor of the old Peter Kemp appointment,” should place Rocky Springs Chapel at the national level of significance in the area of religion.

THE SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION OF THE COMMUNITY

Though the U.B. was not officially organized until 1800, its roots reach back to 1767, when during a revival in a barn near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Martin Boehm told his story of becoming a Christian & a minister. Boehm's story so deeply moved William Otterbein that he left his seat, embraced Boehm & said loud enough for everyone to hear, “Wir sind bruder,” which translated into English is “We are brethren.” Thereafter & for over thirty years, ministers of the Gospel, under the leadership of Martin Boehm, William Otterbein & their colleagues, , Martin Krider, George A. Geeting, Abraham Troxel & others (who were predominately of German heritage), representing different denominations, traveled through Maryland, Pennsylvania & Virginia & held meetings of an evangelistic nature.

These meetings were generally held in barns & private houses because there were few churches in the outlaying districts to which they traveled & often the doors of the few churches that did exist, were closed to these “unsectarian” ministers. This loose religious movement spread to the German-speaking people in Maryland, Pennsylvania & Virginia & Frederick County's large population of German immigrants made it a natural haven for this spiritual transformation. Out of this revival movement came the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. (U.B.), which took its name from the words Otterbein uttered to Boehm in 1767: “Wir sind bruder” (we are brethren). Until about 1840, U.B. sermons were almost always delivered in the German language & church documents were written in German script.

Beginning about 1790, a Protestant religious “revival” period or spiritual renewal movement called “the Second Great Awakening” (c. 1790-1840) was sweeping through the United States, which stimulated the establishment of many reform movements designed to remedy the evils of society before the anticipated “Second Coming” of Jesus Christ & Christians would gather in what they called “Great Meetings.” These were lively events where hundreds of people would gather together & spend several days hearing a string of stirring religious speeches. During this period, the Frederick Kemp Farmstead in Rocky Springs became a primary gathering place for these religious activities & from at least 1790 to about 1830, the Frederick Kemp Farmstead was a center of religious life & influence for the whole church.

In the book, Landmark History of the United Brethren Church, published in 1911, the author, Reverend Commodore I. B. Brane, who was born and raised in the Rocky Springs area of Frederick County, Maryland, explained the significance of the Frederick Kemp Farmstead to the history of the U.B. Church:

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“After a period of thirty years the first general gathering of the “unsectarian ministers” occurred at the home of Peter Kemp, some two miles west of Frederick, Maryland, on the 25th of September, 1800. There and then the United Brethren Church was born...when they came together at Peter Kemp's, representing a widely scattered constituency of probably 25,000, a multiplicity of sacred influences and associations lifted up their voices unitedly...The conference assumed legislative functions, organized itself and its adhering population into a church...That act made Peter Kemp's home historic—the Bethlehem of our denomination. Here the Church was organized and instituted, and from 1790 to 1830, according to the written record, it was a center of life and influence for the whole Church. Great meetings were held at Peter Kemp's, and distinguished ministers of many denominations, including Asbury, Otterbein, Boehm, Newcomer and Lorenzo Dow broke the bread of life in that sacred place.”

Many “Great Meetings” (or “camp meetings” as they were sometimes called) were held in the Frederick Kemp house & barn & esteemed ministers of many denominations preached & worshiped there. Among the hundreds who routinely ministered at the Frederick Kemp Farmstead in Rocky Springs, were: Bishops Philip William Otterbein, Christian Newcomer, Martin Boehm, & the eccentric Methodist itinerant American evangelist, Lorenzo Dow. Some of the pioneer U.B. ministers & members of the U.B. in this region were Reverend Peter Kemp (Frederick Kemp's son), Reverend Adam Lehman (Reverend Peter Kemp's father-in-law & one of the founding ministers of the U.B. denomination), John Cronise, Peter Shook, Benjamin Nidig, Jacob Perry, Benjamin Brane, John Staley, George Stokes, Jacob Weller, Reverend Jacob Bowlus, Reverend/Captain Lawrence Eberhart (who saved General/President George Washington's life in a battle during the Revolutionary War), John Snook, Henry Hemp, William Reinhart, Jacob Toms, Yost Harbaugh, John Harp, Frederick Rider, Jacob Martin, Reuben Osler, Lewis Wertenbaker, Henry Remsberg, Christian Remsberg, Gideon Hoover, John Hoover, Valentine Doub, Joshua Doub & Abraham Doub.

When Reverend Peter Kemp died at the Frederick Kemp Farmstead in February 1811, U.B. Bishop Christian Newcomer was with him & recorded his death & burial in what is now known as Rocky Springs Cemetery, in his journal (which was later translated from German to English & published in 1834): “25th—Rode to Peter Kemp's; he was very ill and rejoiced to see me, stretched forth his hand and said, “O ! Brother, how ardently did I desire to see you once more in this world; I know my time is short, soon I shall try the realities of another world.” Being very weak, he was not able to say much. I asked him whether he had the love of Jesus dwelling in his soul? He replied, “O yes, bless the Lord for it.” He continued to grow more feeble, until the following morning, when between 5 and 6 o'clock he expired in the arms of Jesus. At the time of his death we were all at prayer around the bed.” The next entry in Bishop Newcomer's journal reads: “27th—This morning the remains of Br. Peter Kemp were interred; a great many people attended the funeral. Br. Geeting preached the funeral discourse, from Psalm 8, v. 5, I followed him in the English language.” After the death of Reverend Peter Kemp in 1811, his daughter, Esther (Kemp) Doub & her husband, Valentine Doub, who were also leaders in the Church, acquired the Frederick Kemp Farmstead & it continued to serve as the center of life for the U.B. Virtually all those living in the Rocky Springs area of Frederick County, Maryland, during the 19th century were affiliated with the U.B. denomination. According to U.B. history, some of the leading members of the Rocky Springs community who worshiped at the Frederick Kemp Farmstead during the DocuSign Envelope ID: CBD2D366-BD1D-4D3D-A136-78FF73C06D02

early days of the denomination were Cornelius Staley & wife, Joshua Main & wife, Frederick Kintz & wife, Henry Perry & wife, Daniel Shook, Lewis Yonson, Mahlon Miller, John Shankle, Reverend C. I. B. Brane & Reverend J. H. Mayne. Moreover, around 1830, Esther (Kemp) Doub organized a Sunday school at her home (the Frederick Kemp Farmstead) under the management of the following officers: David Kemp, superintendent; Ezra Doub, assistant superintendent; teachers: Mrs. David Kemp, Mrs. Ezra Doub, Mrs. Cornelius Staley, Miss Schultz & Miss Preston. This Sunday school, which is thought to be the first organized under the auspices of the U.B. in Frederick County, was reportedly held “in the beautiful yard surrounding the Doub-Kemp home in summer time, and at other times in the two large rooms of the dwelling house.” According to the 1911 book, Landmark History of the United Brethren Church, all the people of the community, to include the Kemps, the Schultzs, the Albaughs, the Whitmores, the Staleys, the Bakers, the Martzs, Miss Kate Hoover, Miss Marietta Doub, and many others, attended this Sunday school in the early days of United Brethrenism. On the question of moral reform, the U.B was considered radical in that from the time of its founding, the denomination vehemently opposed slavery. By 1815, its leaders placed in their Book of Discipline, a declaration of condemnation against slavery, which was followed in 1821, by strong prohibitory legislation. The enactment forbade the buying & selling of slaves by members of the U.B., required the immediate manumission (freeing) of certain classes & provided for the early manumission of all others. By 1837, the U.B. prohibited all ownership of slaves by its members, under any circumstances whatsoever, on pain of expulsion. Although it frequently caused financial hardship to its members, this rule was strictly adhered to & while the U.B. was already well established in Maryland & Virginia, its growth in other slave holding states was either greatly restricted or altogether prevented, by this prohibition. In addition to the original Rocky Springs “appointment,” between 1801 & 1902, thirteen other U.B. congregations were established in Frederick County, Maryland alone. The locations & names of these U.B. churches & the approximate date their congregations were established are: Pleasant Walk (known as both Mount Olivet Church & Jerusalem Chapel) 1801; Middletown (Baulus Chapel) 1801; Thurmont (Weller's Church) 1831; Wolfsville (Salem Church) 1842; Harbaugh's Valley (Otterbein Chapel) 1849; Myersville (Mount Zion Church) 1852; Walkersville (Georgetown Chapel) 1857; Eyler's Valley (known as both Eyler's Valley Church & Dodge Chapel) 1861; Sabillasville (Sabillasville Church) 1872; City of Frederick (Otterbein Memorial Church) 1873; Daysville (Mount Vernon Church) 1875; Deerfield (Deerfield Church) 1878; and Garfield (Mount Carmel Church) 1902. From 1800 until 1839, the old Kemp farmstead was a regular preaching “appointment” for U.B. ministers & the Rocky Springs U.B. congregation. However, on April 15, 1839, John Staley, a pioneer U.B. minister & his wife Margaret, deeded the land for Rocky Springs School House to be built, one mile west of the Kemp farmstead, then the Rocky Springs U.B. congregation transferred its worship services and Sunday school there. According to U.B. history, Rocky Springs School House was one of the denomination's “pioneer church-schools” & was built by the influence of the U.B., “for both school & sanctuary purposes.” The 1911 book, Landmark History of the United Brethren Church, records that “Here the congregation worshiped and flourished till the chapel was built.” In 1847, the U.B. founded Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, which was one of the first universities in the United States to admit women & African Americans as students & as faculty. In 1853, the U.B. organized the “Home, Frontier, and Foreign Missionary Society” & expansion occurred into the western United States On January 4, 1882, Cornelius Staley, a prominent U.B. leader in the Rocky Springs community (and the son of John & Margaret Staley) & his wife, Rhuanna, deeded land to the U.B., adjacent to Rocky Springs School House, for Rocky Springs Chapel to be built. The U.B. recognize Rocky Springs Chapel as “the successor of the old Peter Kemp appointment” & for over 25 years (1882-1909) Rocky DocuSign Envelope ID: CBD2D366-BD1D-4D3D-A136-78FF73C06D02

Springs Chapel served as the center of religious and social life for U.B. members of the Community. The local newspapers during this period are filled with stories of the wonderful worship services, festivals, cantatas, and picnics held by the congregation & many people living in the City of Frederick would travel to Rocky Springs to attend them. THE ASSOCIATION OF ROCKY SPRINGS CHAPEL TO ROCKY SPRINGS CEMETERY

Rocky Springs Cemetery was originally part of the Frederick Kemp Farmstead & was established c. 1750 as the Frederick Kemp Family burying ground. During the last quarter of the 18th century, when the Frederick Kemp Farmstead gradually became the religious epicenter for the movement that by 1800, would became the Church of the United Brethren in Christ (U.B.), the Frederick Kemp family burying ground became a common U.B. burying ground. For most of the 19th & early 20th centuries, Rocky Springs Cemetery was known as “Doub's Graveyard” since Reverend Peter Kemp's daughter, Esther (Kemp) Doub & her husband, Valentine Doub, acquired the farmstead after Peter Kemp's death in 1811. Although Rocky Springs Cemetery became a common U.B. cemetery at the beginning of the 19th century, it continued to convey with land transactions associated with the Frederick Kemp Farmstead until 1889, when the cemetery was deeded to D. Columbus Kemp, Francis T. Lakins & Zachariah G. Thomas, who were identified in the deed as “trustees of Doub Grave Yard.” After Rocky Springs Chapel was built by the U.B. in 1882, funeral services were frequently held in it, however, the members of the congregation continued to bury their loved ones in Doub Grave Yard (now known as Rocky Springs Cemetery). As such, no cemetery was ever established adjacent to Rocky Springs Chapel. Rocky Springs Cemetery is the oldest known continuously used cemetery in Frederick County and has over 700 burials.

THE U.B. SPLITS INTO TWO GROUPS By 1889, the U.B. had grown to over 200,000 members with six bishops. That year, a controversy over membership in secret societies (such as the Freemasons), the proper way to modify the church's constitution & other issues split the U.B. into majority liberal and minority conservative blocs. Until 1946, both groups continued to use the name “Church of the United Brethren in Christ,” distinguished by whether they were under the “old constitution” or the “new constitution.” However, both groups claimed September 25, 1800, as their founding date & the same history up to 1889. The minority faction, the Church of the United Brethren in Christ (U.B.) (Old Constitution), continues today as a denomination of about 550 congregations, with over 47,000 members in fifteen countries. The U.B.'s national office is located in Huntington, Indiana, as is the denomination's college, Huntington University, which it founded in 1897. The majority faction, known as the Church of the United Brethren in Christ (New Constitution), merged with the Evangelical Church in 1946 to form a new denomination known as the Evangelical United Brethren Church (EUB). This in turn merged in 1968 with the Methodist Church to form the United Methodist Church (UMC). With over 12 million members, the UMC is the third largest Christian denomination in the United States. To this day, both the UMC & U.B., trace their founding/history to the Frederick Kemp Farmstead in Rocky Springs (often referred to as the home of Frederick Kemp's son, Reverend Peter Kemp or the home of Valentine Doub, who was the son-in-law of Reverend Peter Kemp). In 1900, the Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the U.B. was held in Frederick, Maryland & a “pilgrimage” was made to the Frederick Kemp Farmstead in Rocky Springs. A centennial service was held in the Kemp house, in the same room in which Otterbein & Boehm were first elected bishops on September 25, 1800. The “pilgrims” also visited what they referred to as “The Old Cemetery on the Kemp Farm” (formerly known as Doub Grave Yard, now known as Rocky Springs Cemetery), where DocuSign Envelope ID: CBD2D366-BD1D-4D3D-A136-78FF73C06D02

Frederick Kemp's son, U.B. Reverend Peter Kemp (1749-1811) & his wife, Mary (Leahman) Kemp, are buried, as well as Mary's parents, Reverend Adam Leahman (one of the U.B.'s founding ministers) & his wife, Margaret Leahman. The pilgrims also viewed Frederick Kemp's large stone barn where “great meetings” had been held during the 18th & 19th centuries & visited “Rocky Spring” on the Kemp Farmstead, “from whose crystal waters the fathers of the Church quenched their thirst while attending the big meeting a century ago.”

In 1950, the Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical United Brethren Church (EUB) erected a commemorative marker (a copper plaque mounted on a boulder from the Thurmont area) on the front lawn of Frederick Kemp's mid-18th century stone manor house, to recognize its importance to the denomination & to the religious history of the United States. The marker reads, “In this home of Peter Kemp was founded the Church of the United Brethren in Christ the first American born denomination September 25, 1800.” Moreover, the Frederick Kemp house is a designated historical landmark of the United Methodist Church (UMC). The U.B. also influenced the establishment of other denominations that trace their roots to the U.B. & the conference at Peter Kemp's house at Rocky Springs on September 25, 1800, for example, The Evangelical Church, Churches of God, and Brethren in Christ.

THE U.B. WITHDRAWS FROM THE FIELD IN ROCKY SPRINGS

In 1909, because of declining membership, the U.B. officially “withdrew from the field,” in the Rocky Springs area of Frederick County, and on April 30, 1909, John W. Grove, Charles H. Falk, and John F. Gonso, trustees of the U.B. for Frederick Circuit, sold Rocky Springs Chapel to the newly formed community group “The Rocky Springs Chapel, a body corporate” for $300. The chapel then became a “union” church, made up of Reformers, Lutherans, Methodists & United Brethren. However, many U.B. leaders vehemently disapproved of the sale. Reverends Daniel Eberly, Isaiah H. Albright, and C. I. B. Brane, authors of Landmark History of the United Brethren Church, published in 1911, wrote the following statement under a photograph of Rocky Springs Chapel in the book:

“This is a cut of the...United Brethren Church that was built at Rocky Springs, right close to the old Rocky Springs school house... This neat chapel, because we had but few members in that neighborhood, was sold to the community. The ground should have been maintained to the latest generation! For the sake of high and historic sentiment...this chapel should have remained in the hands of the United Brethren in Christ, who were the first to break the bread of life in this neighborhood.”

On May 1, 1911, the Frederick Evening Post published an article titled “Building Purchased Recently to Be Used As a Union Church” which reads:

“Yesterday afternoon the following trustees of the Rocky Springs Chapel were elected: John F. Gonso, D. Columbus Kemp, Francis T. Lakin, Wm. Krantz. Joseph Hilderbrand, Julian Kemp and J Welty Fahrney. The trustees organized by electing D. Columbus Kemp, president; J. Welty Fahrney. vice-president; Francis T. Lakin. secretary: Keefer Staley, assistant secretary, and John F. Gonso, treasurer. The Rocky Springs chapel was lately purchased from the United Brethren church, the money for its purchase being raised by 200 contributions from the neighborhood. About the middle of June, the chapel will be dedicated. The church is for union worship, its congregation of being. Reformers, Lutherans, Methodists and-United Brethren. The chapel is at present-undergoing extensive repairs, both interior and exterior, and by the time of dedication will present an up-to-date appearance.”

After it was purchased by The Rocky Springs Chapel, a body corporate, in 1909, Rocky Springs Chapel flourished as a “union” church for more than 70 years (c. 1909-1982) and remained the vibrant DocuSign Envelope ID: CBD2D366-BD1D-4D3D-A136-78FF73C06D02

religious and social center of the Rocky Springs community. J. Welty Fahrney reported in an article published in The Evening Post, on May 11, 1911, pertaining to the Church of the Brethren (also known as the "Dunkers" or "German Baptist's Brethren" for Frederick County) that “The brethren have purchased a right in the Union Chapel at Rocky Springs and hold preaching service there every three weeks in the afternoon.” Moreover, in the 1938 book, History of the Pennsylvania Conference by U.B Reverend Paul E. Holdcraft, the author wrote the following in reference to Rocky Springs Chapel:

“Although our work has been discontinued here, this history must by all means record the story of the Rocky Springs appointment…the big spring is on the old Peter Kemp farm where the denomination was organized in 1800… The services were transferred from the Kemp-Doub home to Rocky Springs School House, (built 1837) about a mile westward. Here the work was carried on for many years in this venerable stone structure…About the year 1881 a neat chapel was erected along-side the school house and the services were held in it. The leader in the work was Cornelius Staley. In 1910, because of a lack of interest in the work, the church house was sold and the United Brethren withdrew from the field. As the historian sees it, this was a grave mistake. This was one of our most sacred shrines and sentiment should have prompted holding on a litter longer. The community purchased the building for $300 and it is now a union church, very neatly kept, well equipped, and has a thriving Sunday School. For many years the Gonso family have been pillars in the work here and since the U.B. denomination withdrew from the field three members of the family have become prominent ministers in the Church of God, namely, Revs. John, Harry, and Raymond Gonso.”

Reverends John (1888-1974), Harry (1892-1984), and Raymond Gonso (1897-1976) were sons of long- time Rocky Springs Chapel Trustee John F. Gonso (1863-1954), who was a renowned blacksmith in the Rocky Springs community and the organizer/founder and president of the Lima Bean Growers' Association of Frederick County. They grew up in the house located directly across the street from Rocky Springs School House and Rocky Springs Chapel and attended both as children. After reaching adulthood and becoming Church of God ministers, the brothers became well-known for giving “fiery” sermons of an “Evangelical nature” at Rocky Springs Chapel. Reverend John H. Gonso, who had been taught the blacksmith trade by his father, John F. Gonso, even became known as “the Blacksmith Evangelist” since according to the local newspapers, he frequently gave sermons using an anvil for a pulpit. An account of this practice was published in the March 12, 1926 edition of the Frederick News Post titled “Evangelistic Services” which reads:

“John H. Gonso, formerly of Frederick County is now conducting a series of evangelistic services at the Rocky Springs Chapel. This series began Sunday. Service is held every night with the exception of Monday. Reverend Mr. Gonso was born and raised at Rocky Springs, having followed the blacksmith trade until he entered the ministry at the age of 21. He uses as a pulpit, the anvil upon which he learned the blacksmith trade. It is understood that the Evangelist is now having made a musical anvil to replace the one that is now in use. The services are being well attended.”

Another article illustrating Reverend John H. Gonso's unique practice of using an anvil during his services appeared in the July 12, 1933 issue of The Daily Mail (Hagerstown, Maryland):

“Large Attendance At Woods Meeting-Sparks flew from the sermon delivered last night by Evangelist Gonso, called the Blacksmith evangelist, who preached at the woods meeting on “The Way of God.” Rev. Mr. Gonso was a blacksmith by trade and always carries his anvil with him wherever he goes, using it as a pulpit, striking it frequently with his hammer as he preaches.”

In an article published in the Frederick News-Post on January 6, 2008, titled “Influence of Little White DocuSign Envelope ID: CBD2D366-BD1D-4D3D-A136-78FF73C06D02

Church Remains,” the author, Howard Faust, whose grandmother “Nanny” Lena V. Dinterman (1916- 2008), lived in Rocky Springs for 75 years, describes his feelings about attending the Rocky Springs Chapel when he was growing up, in the following way:

“...In my life there was this little white church in Rocky Springs that was not the biggest church around or the most lavish one, either. Instead, it was a church with strong roots and a solid foundation for shaping lives and bringing together a community. It was a place that was so special that when you simply stepped into it you felt a special sense of peace about you that lifted your spirit and filled you with such joy. It was a church that, today, some would think was out of a story book....I'm so thankful to have had the upbringing I did and to have the foundation I do. Nanny is such a big part of my life and I could never thank her enough for bringing me to and exposing me to the little white church . I will treasure this for the rest of my life, and whenever I need to lift my spirits all I have to do is close my eyes and return to my little white church.” By the early 1980s, the congregation worshiping at Rocky Springs Chapel had greatly diminished, and although it was used sporadically by various church groups from the mid-1980s to 2011, Rocky Springs Chapel was largely silent during this period. In 2014, the nonprofit organization Historic Rocky Springs Chapel, Inc. (HRSC) was formed by a group of volunteers with a mission to preserve, restore and interpret both historic Rocky Springs Chapel and Rocky Springs School House for the public, as well as return the Chapel to service as a public house of worship. On March 23, 2015, the last remaining trustees of “The Rocky Springs Chapel, a body corporate,” the group that had purchased Rocky Springs Chapel from the U.B. in 1909, deeded the Chapel and School House property to the trustees of HRSC for $1. HRSC currently holds monthly Civil War style church services in the chapel and is interpreting both Rocky Springs Chapel and Rocky Springs School House for the public. DocuSign Envelope ID: CBD2D366-BD1D-4D3D-A136-78FF73C06D02 DocuSign Envelope ID: CBD2D366-BD1D-4D3D-A136-78FF73C06D02 DocuSign Envelope ID: CBD2D366-BD1D-4D3D-A136-78FF73C06D02 DocuSign Envelope ID: CBD2D366-BD1D-4D3D-A136-78FF73C06D02

HISTORY & SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT ROCKY SPRINGS SCHOOL HOUSE

Rocky Springs School House is a 1,057 SF one-story, field-stone school with a one-room plan and unusual foyer, built about 1839. It has a 354 SF concrete block addition on the rear elevation erected about 1930. The school house is located on the northeast side of Rocky Springs Road about 50 yards northwest of the intersection of Kemp Lane near Frederick (City), Frederick County, Maryland. The building is located about 25 feet from the edge of the road and its principal elevation with the projecting foyer faces southwest toward the street. An inscribed stone in the foyer gable reads “Built 1835”; however, land records indicate that the date may have been 1839. The Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties (MIHP) form (Survey No. F-3-95) completed in the 1990s on the school house indicates that the school's stone foyer was added about 1850. However, the preservation contractor hired to stabilize the school house in April 2020, determined that the stone foyer was not added to the school, but is part of the school's original construction. This became evident after the deteriorated roof was removed and the building's top plate was exposed. Examination of the top plate revealed it to be one long wood beam that spanned all the way from the main section of the building through the foyer section, which ruled out the possibility of the foyer being an addition.

The building is generally rectangular in form. It had a gable roof covered with composition material over wood shingles which had collapsed, until April 2020, when the roof was removed as part of a building stabilization project. The stone walls are topped by a corbeled brick cornice, which in April 2020, was covered with a rubber membrane to prevent further deterioration of the structure. The southwest gable end originally had two bays and the east and west elevations each have two bays. The windows are 6/6 with plain lintels and sills. An open cupola with a bell was located over the southwestern gable. It was removed in 1991 because of deterioration and the bell is stored by Debby Moone, president of the board of trustees of Historic Rocky Springs Chapel, Inc., the nonprofit organization that owns Rocky Springs School House. An entrance foyer and cloakroom with a shed roof is at the southwest. The doorway was placed near the corner of the foyer facing east. The present door is a vertical tongue-and-groove type, probably a late 19th or early 20th century replacement of the original vertical board door. The western bay of the original section with its 6/6 window remained as built. On the east and south sides of the foyer are 2/2 windows. When the school was closed and bought by the Rocky Springs Chapel in 1930, a rusticated concrete block addition was added to the northeast or rear elevation. The gable of the school above this addition is covered with German siding, which may have been added when the addition was built. An interior end chimney was located on the north gable end. However, it collapsed with the roof and was removed as part of the April 2020 stabilization project. The addition has an entrance on the southeast side with double doors with arched molding panels. On the north side of the addition are two windows of horizontally sliding 6/6 sash. The walls of the school are plaster. Slate blackboards were placed between the window openings but were removed and secured as part of the April 2020 building stabilization project. The floor of the school was random pine boards but the floor was so heavily damaged by termites that it was removed about 15 years ago.

Rocky Springs School House one of the oldest one-room field stone schools in Maryland, and still stands at its original location. It is an excellent example of an early 19th century rural school in Frederick County. The school served 90 years as a Frederick County public school (1839-1930) and was the seat of learning for generations of local farm children. Rocky Springs School House is a rare tangible reminder of Maryland's first attempt at a uniform system of primary school education, is directly associated with the founding site of the first Protestant denomination founded in the United States, and is the documented site of a cavalry skirmish that occurred on July 8, 1864, in connection DocuSign Envelope ID: CBD2D366-BD1D-4D3D-A136-78FF73C06D02

with the Battle of Monacacy.

According to Church of the United Brethren In Christ (U.B.) history, Rocky Springs School House was built for both school and sanctuary purposes through the influence of the U.B., whose members were people of prominence in the Rocky Springs community. The U.B. was the first Protestant denomination founded in the United States, and was organized in the Rocky Springs area of Frederick County in 1800, at the home of Frederick Kemp, and his son, U.B. Reverend Peter Kemp (one mile east of Rocky Springs School House), under the leadership of two German-born clergymen. The U.B. combined Mennonite and German Reformed traditions with Methodism and spread to the German speaking people of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia in the early 19th century, and was considered radical because its members vehemently opposed slavery. The U.B. is an uniquely American denomination & has a direct relationship to the mid-18th century German settlement of this region & to the cultural influences of these settlers on the religious history of our nation. Since the Frederick Kemp Farmstead in Rocky Springs (often referred to as the “Peter Kemp House”) was routinely used as a gathering place by the founders & early leaders of the U.B. (beginning as early as 1774, according to some church documents) & the church was officially founded there in 1800, it is considered the “Bethlehem” of two world-wide religious denominations (the U.B. & the United Methodist Church). The U.B. movement also helped spawn other pietistic German American denominations including the Evangelical Church, Churches of God, and the Brethren in Christ.

In 1836, a supplement to the “1825 Act to provide for the Public Instruction of Youth in Primary Schools throughout this State” was passed by the Maryland Legislature. It gave the school district trustees in Frederick County, the authority to permit any of the school-houses to be used for public worship. By 1839, the predecessor of Rocky Springs School House, which was built in 1790, on a lot adjacent to the Rocky Springs School House lot, was over 45 years old, and the U.B. congregation still worshiping at the private home of Reverend Peter Kemp, where the U.B. church was organized in 1800, needed a house of worship. Therefore, by deed dated April 15, 1839, U.B. Reverend John Staley and his wife Margaret, conveyed a parcel of land to school trustees Cornelius Staley, Ezra Doub and Nicholas Whitmore “...so that they shall erect and build, or cause to be erected and built thereon a school house for the use of the Schoolers in School District no. 26 to be called Rocky Springs School House.” In the deed, the Staleys stipulated that the school be “...laid out by the Board of Inspection, by the Primary School of Frederick County... according to the laws and regulations made by the Legislature of the State of Maryland for the government of primary schools in Frederick County...”

As soon as Rocky Springs School House was built, the U.B. congregation that had been worshiping at Peter Kemp's house where the U.B. denomination was founded in 1800 (which by now was owned by Reverend Peter Kemp's daughter, Esther, and her husband, Valentine Doub), moved its religious services and Sunday School from that historic home, where the congregation had been meeting for almost 40 years, to Rocky Springs School House. From 1839 until the U.B. built Rocky Springs Chapel next door in 1882, Rocky Springs School House served simultaneously as both Frederick County Public School Number 26 and as a U.B. house of worship (a period of 42 years).

In the book, Landmark History of the United Brethren Church, published in 1911, Rocky Springs School House is identified as one of the denomination's “Pioneer Church-Schools.” Of the three primary schools the U.B. profiled in the book that relate to the denomination's earliest history, Rocky Springs School House is the only one still standing, since Retreat School House, which was located near Walkersville and built about 1835, was demolished in the 1950s, and the Geeting Meeting House and School, which was located in Washington County, Maryland, was demolished during the 19th DocuSign Envelope ID: CBD2D366-BD1D-4D3D-A136-78FF73C06D02

century. Rocky Springs School House's direct association with the early history of the U.B., and with the U.B. founding site, tells a fascinating cultural story concerning the history of religion in the United States, its connection to the mid-18th century German settlement of this region and the cultural influences of these settlers on the religious history of our nation.

Reverend Commodore. I. B. Brane (1848-1920), co-author of the book, Landmark History of the United Brethren Church, published in 1911, attended Rocky Springs School House as a boy in the 1850s/1860s. In the book, Reverend Brane describes the all encompassing role Rocky Springs School House played in his life as follows:

“When the society that worshiped at Valentine Doub's, where the general church was organized in 1800, transferred its services to Rocky Spring School house, it entered upon the occupancy of a stone structure that was built for school and sanctuary purposes... Here the writer worshiped on Sunday and wrestled with the three R's during the week, receiving nutriment for head and heart, plus an occasional flogging. Of course, there is a wide difference between temporal and eternal things, but they were strangely mixed...in that stone schoolhouse. The man who inspired my soul on Sunday, tanned my hide on Monday. The preacher was also the teacher, you see. That strange combination of gospel grace and physical culture I well remember... by the way, how I love that old schoolhouse. It recalls those exquisitely bright days of childhood, including the boys and girls with whom I played forty years ago. It is the embodiment of some of the sweetest memories of my life, secular, social and religious. In that old schoolhouse I was converted. Within those walls, one bright Sunday morning, I was formally received into the Church. There I received my first communion. How I long to see my old pastors, and teachers, and schoolmates...”

Rocky Springs School House also connects us with Maryland's Civil War history with vividness and authenticity since it is the documented site of a cavalry skirmish that occurred as a prelude to the Battle of Monocacy. On July 8, 1864, about 100 members of the Eighth Illinois Cavalry (U.S.A.) and 400 members of the First and Second Maryland Cavalry (C.S.A.), skirmished near Rocky Springs School House, killing and wounding several men and horses. Documentation of the skirmish, to include two maps depicting Rocky Springs School House are in the 1898 book titled “Early's Great Raid, He Advances Through Maryland, Battle of Monocacy,” by Frederick native and State's Attorney for Frederick County, E. Y. Goldsborough (1839-1915), First Lieutenant and Aid-de-Camp to General E.B. Tyler, in the days leading up to, during and immediately after the Battle of Monocacy. The first of Goldsborough's maps depicting Rocky Springs School House is captioned "Monocacy Battlefield and Vicinity." The second map is captioned "Showing Federal and Rebel Lines of Battle July 8, 1864." Goldsborough also wrote, "Our cavalry skirmished with the rebel cavalry during the day (Friday, July 8th), along Catoctin Mountain, near Rocky Springs School House, and the artillery stationed near the city limits on the north side of the road had a spirited fight with a rebel battery on Hagan's Hill, about a mile west of the city..." In 2018, Historic Rocky Springs Chapel, Inc. (HRSC), the nonprofit organization that owns Rocky Springs School House, had a Civil War Trails marker placed on the grounds of the school to interpret the skirmish for the public.

In 1930, the Frederick County Board of Education sold Rocky Springs School House to the trustees of The Rocky Springs Chapel for use as a meeting and community center. In 2015, The Rocky Springs Chapel sold the school to the trustees of Historic Rocky Springs Chapel, Inc., an all volunteer nonprofit organization, committed to the preservation and interpretation of both Rocky Springs School House and Rocky Springs Chapel.

Rocky Springs School House is identified on the 1858 Isaac Bond Map of Frederick County as “PSch DocuSign Envelope ID: CBD2D366-BD1D-4D3D-A136-78FF73C06D02

26” and is listed on the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties (MIHP) (Survey No. F-3-95). In 2019, the Maryland Historical Trust (MHT) determined Rocky Springs School House is eligible for individual listing on the National Register of Historic Places and HRSC is currently working with MHT to convey a preservation easement on the school house and surrounding property, to MHT. The determination was made by MHT in connection with a Maryland Heritage Areas Authority grant HRSC received for stabilization of the school house. In 2020, HRSC completed the Rocky Springs School House stabilization project and the project was selected to receive a 2021 Maryland Historical Trust Preservation Award for excellence in historic preservation. The project was Phase I of a multi- phase project designed to rehabilitate and restore Rocky Springs School House to its original 1839 appearance and provide for its adaptive reuse as a public center for historical interpretation and research about the history of the school house and the people, objects and events associated with it.

The MIHP inventory form generated in the 1990s for Rocky Springs School House indicates the school's areas of significance are architecture and education (criteria A and C) and the level of significance is “local.” However, the school's direct association with the founding site of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ (U.B.) and its status as one of the denominations “pioneer church schools”, makes it also significant in the area of religion. In addition, the U.B. denomination's status as the first Protestant denomination founded in the United States and the impact the denomination has had on the religious history of our nation, should place the school at the national level of significance in the area of religion. Moreover, because Rocky Springs School House is the documented site of a Civil War cavalry skirmish that occurred on July 8, 1864, as a prelude to the Battle of Monocacy, which is commonly known as “the battle that saved Washington,” its level of significance should be at the national level under criterion A (event).

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Rocky Springs Chapel and School House Photographs

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Rocky Springs School House Entrance, East Elevation

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30 North Market Street, Third Floor Frederick, Maryland 21701 (301) 600-1147

FREDERICK COUNTY HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION AGENDA February 3, 2021 7:00 PM

CALL TO ORDER

I) ROLL CALL

II) APPROVAL OF MINUTES – January 6, 2021

III) NEW BUSINESS

a) CR # 20-02 Rocky Springs Chapel and School House Frederick, MD Applicant is proposing to nominate the Rocky Springs Chapel and the Rocky Springs School House to the County Register of Historic Places. These are two separate buildings located on one parcel, 7817 Rocky Springs Road

b) COA # 21-01 Elisha Beall Landscape Plan Urbana, MD Applicant is seeking approval of a landscape plan for the Elisha Beall property (CR# 99- 01) to plant trees along the drive, add vegetation screen along property boundary and extend split rail fence around the property.

IV) UNFINISHED BUSINESS

a) None

V) ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS

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30 North Market Street, Third Floor Frederick, Maryland 21701 (301) 600-1147

February 8, 2021

Historic Rocky Springs Chapel, Inc. Attn: Ms. Debby Moone, President 7817 Rocky Springs Road Frederick, MD 21702

Re: Nomination of the Rocky Springs Chapel & School House to the Frederick County Register of Historic Places

Dear Ms. Moone:

This letter confirms the Frederick County Historic Preservation Commission’s unanimous vote at the February 3, 2021 hearing to recommend the Rocky Springs Chapel and School House for listing on the County Register of Historic Places. The next step in the process is to schedule the nomination for consideration by the County Council. We will contact you when the date and time for the County Council’s public hearing on the nomination is scheduled. If you have any questions about the process, you may contact me at 301-600-1147 or by email at: [email protected].

Sincerely,

Amanda K. Whitmore Principal Planner I – Historic Preservation

Cc: Gary Baker, Chair, Historic Preservation Commission File: CR 21-01