German Reformed Church
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Christ Reformed Church, United Church of Christ (German Reformed Church)
1795, 1839. South side of German St. East of Mill Street and the Norfolk Southern Railroad
An octagonal belfry and slight ogee-shaped cap merging into a spire have provided an architectural sentinel at Shepherdstown's eastern edge for more than 200 years. These almost baroque elements cap a square tower built of rough rubble limestone and together are the only surviving parts of a church dedicated in 1795. Michael Yeasley, parishioner and Revolutionary War veteran, procured the bells, cast in France, in 1798. The tower is attached to a later, rather plain, brick church, whose cornerstone was laid on August 10, 1839.
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