The Blue Church

The Blue Church

Photo by Alan L Brown - June 13, 2004

The Blue Church

Photo by Alan L Brown - July 8, 2007

Plaque Location

The County of Leeds and Grenville
The Township of Augusta
On the NW corner of County Road 2 and County Road 31 between Maitland and Prescott

Plaque Text

On January 1, 1790, inhabitants of Augusta and Elizabethtown townships agreed to build a church here in the "burying yard" of the proposed town of "New Oswegatchie". Subscriptions were inadequate and nothing was built by 1804 when Barbara Heck, the founder of Methodism in Upper Canada, was buried here. In 1809, Anglicans of Augusta and Elizabethtown built a frame chapel, later called the "Blue Church", which served the parish until St. James, Maitland, was opened in 1826. The "Blue Church", unconsecrated, rarely used for services and in bad repair, was partially burned and taken down in 1840. The present small blue church was built in 1845.

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