Moscow Methodist Church and Cemetery, Historical religious complex in Prescott, United States
Moscow Methodist Church is a wooden-structure religious building located in Arkansas with an adjacent burial ground. The property contains numerous grave markers spanning more than a century and a half of local burials.
Methodist historians date the congregation's origin to as early as 1842, and the first marked burial in the cemetery is from 1864, though the deed to the grounds was only issued in 1868. In 1864 the area around Moscow saw Civil War action during the Red River Campaign and the Camden Expedition, including the Action at Moscow on April 13, 1864, when Confederate forces under Sterling Price and Thomas Dockery engaged Union troops under Frederick Steele and John Thayer. Regular services continued until 1989, and in December 2003 the Arkansas Conference of the United Methodist Church quit-claimed the church and grounds to the Moscow Cemetery Association.
The name Moscow came from the surrounding community, whose farms, shops, two blacksmiths, post office, saloon and Masonic Lodge dated to about 1810. The church stayed in the Little Rock Conference minutes into the 1970s, and regular services ran until 1989. In December 2003 the Arkansas Conference of the United Methodist Church quit-claimed the building and grounds to the Moscow Cemetery Association.
The site is accessible via Nevada County Roads 23 and 260 and is maintained by a cemetery association. Visitors should expect rural surroundings and unpaved pathways around the grounds.
Edward A. Warren, a former US Representative and circuit judge, is buried within the cemetery grounds and connects this place to American political history. His presence among the grave markers reminds visitors of ties between a rural site and prominent national figures.
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