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Quenzel – Intro – text
THE HISTORY AND BACKGROUND OF ST. GEORGE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA by CARROL H. QUENZEL Librarian and Professor of History Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 1951 COPYRIGHT 1951-BY THE VESTRY OF ST_ GEORGE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Printed by CLYDE W. SAUNDERS AND SONS, RICHMOND, VIRGIN; … Read more
Quenzel- Chapter 4 – text
CHAPTER IV THE TWENTIETH CENTURY FROM the standpoint of St. George’s clerical leadership, the present century began as the previous one had ended, with the Reverend Mr. Smith as rector. In 1902 a vestry committee was amazed to discover that St. George’s had been without legal trustees since February 17, 1876. Apparently the trustees that … Read more
Quenzel- Chapter 3 – text
CHAPTER III THE POST-BELLUM PERIOD ST. GEORGE’S CHURCH was without regular services for two years after the Reverend Mr. Randolph was evacuated from Fredericksburg in November, 1862. Then Miss Mary Thorn collected sufficient funds to support a provisional rector, the Reverend Magruder Maury, and services were resumed on December 2, 1864, in the basement lecture … Read more
Getting Started in St. George's History - 6 essential resources
Selections from several categories of our history.
McGuire served all 3 churches over the course of 45 years. He is probably the most influential of all our rectors in all phases of ministry from preaching, teaching, and outreach. Trip Wiggins, our archivist, wrote this for a Sunday school class and has been teaching classes for years
6. Tom Faulkner confronts the Vestry on race
Faulkner served St. George's for 30 years from 1946-1976. During these years racial policies were paramount, especially 1954, in the year of Brown vs. Board of Education, Faulkner was challenged by the Vestry on the role of Blacks in our service. He was able to move St. George's toward racial justice that other rectors would further
