St. George’s History comprises individual articles, documents and collections around the 300 year history of St. George’s Episcopal Church, located in Fredericksburg Virginia. This site is unrelated to St. George's main website.
Supplementing them are a category-based search, a content index and a timeline. We have two tour documents - a building summary and a 15 minute walking tour you can take in the church.
If this is your first visit, check out the 2 tours - building summary and a 15 minute walking tour.
Recent articles
Formation of St. George Parish
1 From Parish Lines in Virginia ,Virginia State Library In 1714 a new parish was formed in Essex County south side of the Rappahannock River within the former bounds of St. Mary’s Parish The new parish was St George s Parish. Within its bounds was the settlement at Germanna on the Rapidan River. This parish … Read more
John Wallace
Bank President, Physician and father of a dynasty, Wallace was a well-known personality at the time of the second St. George’s church (1815-1849) and current building (1849). He was an original pew holder of our church, paying $400 for Pew 62 (about $12,800 today). He was not a member of the Vestry and there is … Read more
John Byrd Hall and Hall’s Drugstore
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Earl Baughman
Contributions from Ed Jones in the March, 2008 St. Georgian Earl is a native of Seymour Indiana and graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering. He has been retired since 2007, and in his professional life he focused on US Navy Combat Systems. During his career, he spent ten years … Read more
Edgar M. Young (1876-1944)
Edgar Young was junior warden, senior warden and member of the Vestry from the 1922 to the time of his death in 1944. He served on the property committee, was an auditor of books and was a treasurer even longer (29 years). He also is noted for keeping the “pew books” of who had ownership … Read more
Mary Faulkner (1919-2008)
“I believe that God is love. We need to become one world of people who care for each other in our different ways. You can’t lose when you try to love people” – 2002 Oral history In her oral memoirs to Tomi Reneau, Mary remarked “When I was coming along in my year at the … Read more
The 300 introduction
Assignment – “Write 300 words..or so.. on 300 notable St. Georgians that have lived in the past 300 years of St. Georgia’s history… The list is in no particular order or no ranking. All on this list made valuable contributions to St. George’s long history. The effort was to sample from the entire range of … Read more
1. Carrol Quenzel's History of St. George's
Quenzel's 1951 history is still the standard for the church. He was a librarian for Mary Washington College as well as being active at St. George's, helping to create the St. Georgian newsletter as well as a part of the Vestry. We have the entire book online which was published by St. George's
2. The Three Churches of St. George's - Barbara Willis
Barbara Willis was a local historian and writer and long time St. Georgian with her husband Mac. This paper is a detailed summary of the evolution of St. George's church from its wooden colonial church to the impressive 1849 brick building we have today.
The Civil War may be the most popular historic topic in all of our history. The church served in 3 capacities - as a fortress, center of revival and as a hospital. We have a 9 part series on our role and relationship to Fredericksburg.
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
5. Charles Syndor on Social Policy
Charles Sydnor served St. George's from 1972-2003 and was responsible for furthering Thomas Faulkner's outreach ministries and creating new ones. This paper he wrote in 2009 was for an adult forum in that year.
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
