Thomas, Ann

The first St. Peter's Episcopal Church was not built in Purcellville, VA until 1911, yet its story begins in 1871 in Leesburg, VA when the 76th Council of the Diocese of Virginia granted parishioners of Western Loudoun County the right to plant a church in Hamilton, VA. An already extant Catoctin Free Church separated from St. James Episcopal Church, Leesburg, and established themselves as St. Paul's Church, Hamilton in 1877. Bishop Alfred Randolph (1836-1918) consecrated the church seven years later in 1884. Their first rector was the Reverend Theodore Reid who held the position from 1874 to 1878.

From Hamilton, after only a few years of continuous growth, another church was ready to be planted and became Mt. Calvary, Round Hill in 1892. Mt. Calvary was consecrated six years later by Bishop Robert Gibson (1846-1919) in September of 1898.

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