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ASBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church). Address – Church and High Streets. The members of this church believe its origin dates back to 1859. This information was not documented, but is supported by the fact that Asbury’s first building, located on Rockey Street in Shepherdstown, was destroyed by fire during the Civil War. It is believed the forebearers of Asbury were St. Andrew’s Episcopalians who, after the Civil War, became African Methodist Episcopalians. As slaves, they could not purchase property, so their deed to the church building was held by the white congregation of Trinity Episcopal Church. On December 19, 1867, Asbury’s trustees purchased a building at Church and High Streets in Shepherdstown from Trinity Episcopal Church. This was the same structure that the slave congregation of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church had purchased and held worship services in. St. Andrew’s was dissolved in 1900.