Buffalo Presbyterian Church

Buffalo Presbyterian Church

Buffalo Presbyterian Church William E. Fischer, Jr.
1846. Meeting House Ln. (PA 192), 2.6 miles northeast of Vicksburg

The Presbyterians built the first church in Union County at Buffalo Cross Roads in 1784, a log structure that gave way in 1816 to a stone meetinghouse on land donated by Edward and John Shippen of Philadelphia. This in turn was replaced thirty years later with the present Greek Revival church. Constructed of brick on a fieldstone podium, the church is entered from a tapered flight of steps leading up to the wooden portico where four square Roman Tuscan columns support the square-patterned frieze and clapboarded pediment. The interior retains the original pews and woodwork but the altar and light fixtures were modernized. The old churchyard, surrounded by a stone wall, contains graves of some of the county's earliest settlers.

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