St. Mark's Episcopal Church, is an historic

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church located today at 212 North Church Street in Starke,

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. Designed by Fernandina architect Robert S. Schuyler, it was built as All Saints Episcopal Church in 1880 some 20 miles to the south in Fairbanks in

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on land donated by Fernandina attorney, George Fairbanks, who founded Fairbanks. After disastrous freezes in the 1890s destroyed the Fairbanks citrus groves, membership in All Saints declined and the church was closed. In 1900 it was moved to its present location and renamed St. Marks. All that remains of All Saints in Fairbanks today is its overgrown cemetery.''A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture'', 1989, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, p. 55, In 1989 St. Mark's was listed in ''A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture'', published by the University of Florida Press. Today St. Mark's is an active parish in the

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. Its rector is the Rev. Dennis O'Neill.St. Mark's Episcopal Church: staff
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External links

St. Mark's Episcopal Church website

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