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Mt. Zion Church, Eyewitness to the Civil War

Carolyn Lawson Low, Neighbor

Tour the 1851 Old School Baptist Church, site of a Union hospital during parts of the war, and scene of the July 6, 1864 fight between Confederates led by John Mosby and Union troops from Massachusetts and New York.

Local historian Wynne Saffer will offer tours of the church and cemetery, as Union doctors explain the medical practices in place during the war.

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