This cache was placed for the the
First State Challenge 2011 sponsored by Delaware Geocachers!
Although the challenge has ended, this cache is still available to
be found!
First
State Challenge 2011 caches were spread across the state of
Delaware by volunteer cachers to give you an appreciation for the
great areas of the First State. These should all be fairly easy to
find as they are either small or regular size with a maximum rating
of 2/2.
Description:
James Redden donated the Church site on May 20, 1857. The Church
was built through the efforts of Rev. Truston P. McColley, for whom
it was named.
Built in 1858 and reconstructed in 1898, this church is also
exemplary of the tradition of family chapels, small rural churches
established and maintained to the present by members of the
founding families, in Delaware’s rural communities. Members
of the Webb family and other families represented on the Board of
Trustees continue to use and maintain the church. Services continue
to be held in this chapel on a weekly basis.
McColley’s Chapel’s design is a late, but important,
example of its type. It displays the small size and scale promoted
in early Methodist Discipline calling for their houses of worship
to be “plain and decent.” Although simple and older in
form, the design is clearly late 19th century in time period as
evidenced by the applied detail in vernacular Queen Anne design
including the decorative brackets, shiplap-sided gable ends, and
sawn details. The vernacular Gothic Revival elements include the
steeply pitched roof and pointed arch lintels.
LadyH’s great aunt is buried in the cemetery at this
church.