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Hanover Meeting House
Polegreen Church is located in Virginia
Polegreen Church
Nearest cityMechanicsville, Virginia
Area3.5 acres (1.4 ha)
Built1743 (1743)
NRHP reference No.91001089[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 4, 1991

The Polegreen Church, also known as the Hanover Meeting House, is the site of the first non-Anglican church in Virginia. The site is in rural Hanover County, at 6411 Heatherwood Drive in Mechanicsville. The meeting house was built in 1743, not long after the First Great Awakening reached Virginia. The church was destroyed during the 1864 Union Army advance on Richmond in the American Civil War.[2]

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[1] It is open to the public free of charge.

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References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "The Polegreen Story". Historic Polegreen Church Foundation. Retrieved 2014-03-23.