Morgan Chapel and Graveyard, also known as Christ Episcopal Church-Bunker Hill, is a historic church in Bunker Hill

Bunker Hill, West Virginia

Bunker Hill is an unincorporated town in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States located on Winchester Pike at its junction with West Virginia Secondary Route 26 south of Martinsburg. It is the site of the confluence of Torytown Run and Mill Creek, a tributary of Opequon Creek...

, Berkeley County, West Virginia

Berkeley County, West Virginia

Berkeley County is a county located in the Eastern Panhandle region of the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of 2010, the population is 104,169, making it the second-most populous county in West Virginia, behind Kanawha...

. It is the oldest Episcopal church

Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church is a mainline Anglican Christian church found mainly in the United States , but also in Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe...

 congregation in West Virginia.

In 1741 Morgan Morgan

Morgan Morgan

Colonel Morgan Morgan is traditionally believed to have founded the first permanent white settlement in present day West Virginia at Cool Spring Farm, and he is credited with founding the first church in what is now West Virginia.-Early life:Little direct evidence of Morgan's early life and...

, one of West Virginia's earliest settlers, built the original log church on this site and the cemetery was established. The current Greek Revival building was constructed in 1851. Morgan Morgan

Morgan Morgan

Colonel Morgan Morgan is traditionally believed to have founded the first permanent white settlement in present day West Virginia at Cool Spring Farm, and he is credited with founding the first church in what is now West Virginia.-Early life:Little direct evidence of Morgan's early life and...

, and by Morgan Morgan I, II, III, and IV are all buried in the church cemetery. Morgan Morgan's descendants founded Morgantown. Also buried in the graveyard is noted American portrait artist John Drinker

John Drinker

-Biography:John Drinker was born on March 12, 1760 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents were John Drinker and Susanna Allen Drinker . His father made a number of successful real estate investments in Philadelphia, including the property known as Drinker's Court...

 (1760-1826).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1984.