Pleasant View Methodist Episcopal Church

The church, both black and white, has played a critical role in Quince Orchard’s history. So much so that in a 1908 Washington Post article informing Washingtonians of places worth visiting, Quince Orchard is mentioned as renown for its churches. Three churches served the Quince Orchard community – Pleasant View Methodist Episcopal Church (African American), Hunting Hill Methodist Episcopal Church (Caucasian), and McDonald Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church (Caucasian). These churches served as houses of worship, a place for social gathering, a fellowship hall and as a sanctuary from the tribulations of rural life. As three churches merged into one congregation, Fairhaven United Methodist Church, the ground was seeded for the diverse community that exists today.

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Quince Orchard Colored School

In 1868, just three years after the Civil War ended, the doers in our community recognized that the black children of Quince Orchard deserved to be educated. At a time of significant racial strife, the community banded together to acquire the land, build a school, hire the teachers, and enroll the students all while petitioning the county. Because of their perseverance and belief that our community would be better for all of us – black and white – if all children were educated, Quince Orchard was put on the map. And continues to unite the community beyond racial barriers.

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Pastoral Appointments to Pleasant View Church, Quince Orchard {Gaithersburg}in Montgomery County, 1888-1968

 

Washington Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church

  • 1888 Eden Hammond (1827-1906)

  • 1890 Daniel Wheeler (1837-1907)

  • 1895 Thomas Osbourne Carroll (1843-1908

  • 1898 Edward Moore (1856-1918)

  • 1901 Richard P. Lawson (1845-1923)

  • 1902 Moses Lake (1863-1927)

  • 1903 Allen B. C. Dorsey (1857-1906)


On Emory Grove Circuit separated from Rockville

  • 1908 Thomas P. Thomas 

  • 1910 Clinton G. Taylor (1877-1913)

  • 1911 Charles E. Hodges (…-1955)

  • 1912 Benjamin T. Perkins (…-1938)

  • 1912 John T. Ricks

On Washington Grove Circuit, renamed from Emory Grove

  • 1914 Virgil N. S. Hughes (1885-1961)

  • 1914 Charles Washington

  • 1919 Leslie A. Dyson (1910-1981)

  • 1922 Nathan Ross (…-1937)

On Quince Orchard station

  • 1924 Hugh L. Denman (…-1926)

  • 1926 Wm. Thomas Henderson (…-1930)

  • w/ Scotland in Calvert County

  • 1929 Henderson (see 1926)

  • 1931 Richard Hanson Johnson (1903-1966)

  • 1936 Willim B. Minor (…-1951)

  • 1937 Noah C. Barnes (…-1942)

  • 1937 Ernest Green

  • 1938 James E. Carter (1872-1954)

  • 1939 Florence E. Butler Simms (…-1961) w/Emory Grove

  • 1940 Carter (see 1938)

  • 1942 George A. Thomas (…-1945)

  • 1944 Rutherford H. Riley (…-1947)

  • 1947 Howard L. Wallace (…-1963)

  • 1949 Joseph Stemley (1889-1979)

  • 1953 Thomas Guthry Barrington (1908-1966) w/Linden

  • 1956 Barrington (see 1953)

  • 1959 John Wesley Langford, Sr. (1888-1973)

Help us Preserve Quince Orchard

The church and school are designated a Historic Site in Montgomery County, MD. To help preserve both structures, their history, influence on community, and longstanding legacy, consider donating to the Site’s Preservation Project.

Teachers at the Quince Orchard Colored School

Information obtained from History of the Black Public Schools of Montgomery County, Maryland 1872-1961 by Nina H. Clarke & Lillian B. Brown

 
 

  • James W. Ricks                                 1881

  • C.C. Patterson                                   1889

  • Mary T. Whitley                                1892

  • Sarah Smoot                                       1895

  • Sarah Smoot                                       1897

  • Hattie Montgomery                       1898

  • G.F. White                                           1898

  • Estelle Lee                                           1898

  • Giles White                                         1900

  • M.E. Gregory                                      1905

  • Margaret Hartman                          1912

  • Ruth Sedgwick                                   1917

  • Louise Hicks                                        1917

  • Louise Hicks                                        1918

  • Rooks Turner                                      1920

  • Rosalie Mapson Campbell

  • Nina H. Clarke

  • Julia Taylor Johnson                        1934-1935