The McKendree Methodist Episcopal Chapel dates from before the Civil War, and was located just east of what is now U.S. 301 on the south side of the road between Mitchellville and Queen Anne, approximately 2 miles northwest of Mounty Nebo A.M.E. Church, which was first built in 1877. In that same year, the white congregation of McKendree Chapel closed the chapel with the intention of establishing a new church. The McKendree chapel was offered to the local black Methodist population, which instead built a new small chapel a short distance to the west of McKendree. That newer chapel (Carroll Chapel) still stands on Mitchellville Road. Nothing remains of the original McKendree Chapel. I have been told that there was a graveyard at McKendree, but I do not know that anyone has discovered it. There is a very small graveyard at Carroll Chapel, and a larger graveyard (as you mention) at Mount Nebo.

Incidentally, there was an entirely different Methodist church on Accokeek Road in southern Prince George's County. In that case, the church is gone, but the cemetery remains.

Hope this is helpful!

Susan G. Pearl, Historian
Prince George's County Historical Society

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: The 1861 Martenet Map of PG County shows a
: McKendree Chapel in the Queen Anne District,
: on Queen Anne Bridge Road, about a mile west
: of the junction with Mill Branch Road. This
: is very near the location of the first Mt.
: Nebo Church. The oldest known grave in the
: Mt. Nebo cemetery predates the first Mt.
: Nebo church by 17 years. Does anyone know
: anything about the McKendree Chapel and if
: it had a cemetery associated with it?
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