1904 - Bixler's United Brethren Church, Westminster, MD
In 1877, Peter Bixler asked his son Benjamin to build a meetinghouse for public worship on the family farm in Bachman Valley near Westminster, Maryland. Since a membership had not yet been established, the meetinghouse was built as a venture of faith. Benjamin Bixler willed the meetinghouse and cemetery to the Church of the Brethren in the Pennsylvania Conference. In 1904, the original log meetinghouse was dismantled; in 1905, a larger brick building was erected. The church suffered a severe fire near Christmas, 1953. The renovated church was rededicated in June 1954. The basement was excavated in 1960 to construct Sunday School rooms, kitchen and bathrooms. Bixler's Evangelical United Brethren Church became Bixler's United Methodist Church with the 1968 merger with the Methodist Church.
