Mt. Vernon Methodist Church is a historic

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church in

Maces Spring Maces Spring is a small unincorporated community in Scott County, Virginia, United States, along State Route 614, in an area known as Poor Valley. The settlement consists of a small number of houses. There are no longer any stores in Maces Spring ...

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, United States. It was built about 1895 and is a one-story, rectangular frame structure with gable roof and simple wooden steeple. The church is most notable for its association with the

Carter Family Carter Family was a traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. Their music had a profound impact on bluegrass, country, Southern Gospel, pop and rock musicians as well as on the U.S. folk revival of the 1960s. ...

, a traditional American Country music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. Behind the church is the

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a bu ...

containing the graves of Alvin Pleasant "A.P." Delaney Carter (1891–1960) and his wife Sara Dougherty Carter (1898–1979). an
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in 1985.

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19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States Buildings and structures in Scott County, Virginia Cash–Carter family Churches completed in 1895 Methodist churches in Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Scott County, Virginia Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia 1895 establishments in Virginia {{Virginia-church-stub