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__NOTOC__ Trinity Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Elkridge,
Howard County, Maryland Howard County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population is 334,529. Since there are no incorporated municipalities, there is no incorporated coun ...
. The post road site was also known as Waterloo, Pierceland, Jessop and Jessup throughout the years. It was built starting on July 30, 1856, through 1857 as a chapel-of-ease in Queen Caroline Parish, the mother church of which was, and still is, Christ Church Guilford, near
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. The church land was donated from William G. Ridgley and Dr. Lennox Birckhead, a
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doctor who served in the
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. The land was once part of
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's land that comprised
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. Theodore Tubman and Myers Pearce (of Pierceland) deeded the cemetery to the north of the church as "Chapel hill". The first rector of Trinity Chapel, Alexander X. Berger served in 1857. Columbia's Berger road development is named after him. Berger resigned in 1861 at the outbreak of the civil war. In 1866, Trinity Chapel broke away from Christ Church Guilford, becoming Trinity Church. The church structure is a rectangular frame church of three bays with shingled walls and on the east end, a semi-octagonal
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of stone. Major additions to the original structure took place ca. 1890. It was listed on the
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in 1974.


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External links


Website for Trinity Episcopal Church
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