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Hagerstown to Emmitsburg. Mount Moriah Lutheran Church, founded in 1830, occupies a stone structure originally built in 1877 and rebuilt in 1919 after a fire. In its rebuilt form, Mount Moriah Church displays Gothic Revival style. Mount Bethel United Methodist Church (originally Methodist Episcopal Church) occupies a frame structure built in 1902 and rebuilt with a brick veneer in the 1960s. The adjoining churchyard at Mount Bethel contains relocated graves of some of the earliest settlers of Foxville, including those of the Buhrman family.
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