Brown’s Chapel Cemetery and Brown’s Memorial Cemetery are connected in name and in history. In July 2010, surveyors noted that both cemeteries are well maintained and are still in active use.
In 1850 Rev. Brown and his brother Rev. Jesse Brown led a group of believers from New York to Virginia, where they purchased 320 acres. In 1874 Rev. Augustus Brown and his wife Sarah deeded a half acre of land to the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church to build a house of worship. Rev. Brown and his two sons, Joseph and Irving, built the chapel. Services were first held in the chapel in 1879 and continued until 1967. The Brown’s Chapel Cemetery became a community cemetery and today has over two hundred burials.
