For our 100th cache 'hide', I take you back to where Jess and Wipps became wife and husband. August 27th, 2005 is where we were married at Wakefield Chapel. It is very quaint and was perfect for a smaller sized wedding day. It was built in 1899 and is now a Historical Landmark.
Here follows an excerpt from the 1970 Fairfax County Master Inventory of Historic Sites which contained entries from the Historic American Buildings Survey Inventory:
Wakefield Chapel was built on land given by O. G. Besley to the Trustees of the Methodist Church in 1897. The Reverend Melvin Steadman, Methodist minister and local historian, states that his uncle Mason Hirst remembered hanging the chandelier in the church in 1899. The chapel was built by the Reverend Elhanen W. Wakefield, the first preacher at the church. He also provided the materials and did most of the construction work.
The chapel is a simple one-story wooden building, topped by a steeple rising from a small vestibule. There are four large, gothic arched windows on either side of the building, and one small one on each side of the vestibule. The church was unoccupied between 1963 and 1968 and deteriorated rapidly. In 1968, the Trustees of the Anglican Church of the Ascension acquired the property with the intention of restoring it. Restoration plans include: strengthening the structure; excavating for a basement to provide for plumbing and heating needs; enlarging the vestibule; refurbishing the interior but retaining the original pews. In 1970, the original steeple burned, but a new one has recently been added.
Reverend Wakefield, for whom the chapel is named, was a very colorful figure in Virginia Methodism. Born in 1834, he went to California during the Gold Rush and also fought Indians in the West. A member of the Union forces during the Civil War, he was seriously wounded and half buried in a common grave before it was discovered he was still alive. For many years after the war he rode a wide circuit in Fairfax County, preaching between Falls Church and Fairfax Courthouse.
The area influence of the Wakefield Chapel name is reflected in such nearby communities as "Wakefield Forest," "Chapel Square," and "Chapel Hill," as well as "Wakefield Chapel Road."
<source https://www.franconiahistory.com/historic-sites/wakefield-chapel>
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