{"nrhp_refnum":"92001500","name":"Mingo Creek Presbyterian Church and Churchyard","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Jct. of PA 88 and Mingo Church Rd., Union Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Courtney","county":"Washington County","state":"PA","lat":40.22901386700005,"lon":-79.99691643899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-11-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick Presbyterian church with a churchyard in Courtney, Washington County, Pennsylvania, built in 1831 with a cemetery southwest of the church. The complex also includes a 1924 manse and a 1958 education building.","why_significant":"The site is argued to have been the political and social center of its community and a regional nerve center during the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. Militia and Democratic Society meetings took place there, and the churchyard holds graves of rebel participants, including Captain James McFarlane, who was killed during the uprising. The cemetery's oldest sections are also treated as significant in their own right.","narrative":"Built in 1831 in Courtney, Washington County, this one-and-a-half-story brick church sits north of Mingo Church Road on a site where congregations have gathered since the late 1780s. Its churchyard holds the graves of six men involved in the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, among them Captain James McFarlane, who was killed at the home of excise inspector Neville and whose tombstone was placed in 1798. During the summer of 1794 the grounds hosted militia musters, a Democratic Society founded on February 28 of that year, and a large July assembly that drew former rioters and local leaders into open protest. Many key rebel participants lived in the surrounding township. Because of these events, the property is regarded as a regional center of the uprising, and its oldest cemetery sections are significant for their early stones and graves. A 1924 manse and a 1958 education building are counted as noncontributing.","period_of_significance":"1793-1837","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"vernacular","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:38.06743-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/92001500.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001500/c41a251e35-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001500/c41a251e35-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Generic1139","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mingo_Creek_Presbyterian_Church.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Generic1139</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mingo_Creek_Presbyterian_Church.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993991","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingo_Creek_Presbyterian_Church_and_Churchyard","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6864765"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/washington-county/mingo-creek-presbyterian-church-and-churchyard-92001500/"}