1229 Mount Paran Church Road
Elkton, Virginia 22827
Last updated on April 9, 2024
Directions from St. Hebron Baptist Church to site 36:
  • Go south on E Point Rd
  • In 1.7 mi, turn left onto Florist Rd
  • In 1.3 mi, turn left onto Spotswood Trail (Rt 33) 
  • In 1.1 mi, take a slight left turn onto W Spotswood Ave
  • In 0.7 mil, take a slight right turn onto North St
  • In 450 ft, turn left onto Newtown Rd
  • In 0.5 mi, turn left onto Mt Paran Church Rd
  • In 0.3 mi,  site 32 is on the left
Mt. Paran Church is a historic African American church founded in 1885. Little information is available on the initial church building, which sadly burned down. The church was built in 1924, and the cemetery is behind it on the left side of the road. From 1887 to 1921, the church shared the same lot as the East Elkton School, which was built for Black children in the surrounding area. After the school closed, a considerable amount was donated to erect a larger Newtown (East Elkton) School. The church and school were in the former African American community of Newtown in Elkton.
​There teachers were: 
Mr. L. P. Clinton (1887-88), Annie Deams (1888-92), W. H. Barlow (1892-94), Amanda Williams (1894-96), Hannah A. Young (Nizer) (1896-98), Thomas J. Johnson (1898-99), Hannah A. Nizer (1899-1900), Annie M. Becks (1900-01), Annie S. Reid (1902-03), Gertrude L. Frazier (1904-06). Fred W. Newman (1904-06), Lucy Jones (1907-08), J.H. Carter (1909-10), Rebecca Scott (1910-11), Rebecca Scott and Roberta Morgan (1911-12), Bertha Nelson and Isabel Frye (1912-13), Lottie Lomax and Isabel Frye (1913-15), Fred C. Kimbo and B.H. Jenkins (1915-16), Fred C. Kimbo (1916-17), Isabell V. Wright and Ruby E. Newman (198-19), Ruth A. Steiff and Helen Irvine (1919-20), and Henrietta B. Blound and Myrtle Neuman (1920-21). 
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