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NAUSE-WAIWASH LONGHOUSE (TRINITY METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH)

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1894. 4201 Maple Dam Rd.
  • (Alexander Heilner)
  • (Alexander Heilner)
  • (Alexander Heilner)

Built as Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church and later used by the Hughes African American Methodist congregation from 1955 to 1998, the church now serves as the nontraditional longhouse of the Nause-Waiwash Native American tribe. The Nause-Waiwash are the descendants of the Nanticoke, Choptank, and Pocomoke Indians who were the original inhabitants of this area of Dorchester County. The tribes were officially recognized by the colonial government in a 1720 treaty, but by midcentury the treaty was dissolved and the tribes were forced to flee into the marshes. Although this building bears no resemblance to the traditional longhouse, as seen in a replica built on the site of Handsell at Indiantown, it serves as a permanent location for tribal ceremonies and gatherings. The plain meetinghouse is a rectangular, gabled-front building with a double-door entrance with transom and a rear shed-roofed apse.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie
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Citation

Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie, "NAUSE-WAIWASH LONGHOUSE (TRINITY METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH)", [Bucktown, Maryland], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MD-01-ES66.

Print Source

Buildings of Maryland, Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022, 128-128.

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