Milton Old School Baptist Church Cemetery in Woolford, Maryland

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1598 Taylors Island Road
Woolford, Maryland 21677 United States

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Milton Old School Baptist Church, also known as the Woolford Baptist Meeting House, is a finely appointed single-story frame structure that stands on the north side of Taylor' Island Road in the small creek community of Woolford, formerly Milton.

Historic architectural finishes inside and out clearly document the building's construction during the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Resting on brick piers, the frame meeting house, with its steeply pitched gable roof, is lighted by six-over-six sash windows. A single door pierces the east gable end. The most significant exterior feature of the building is the segregated entrance on the northeast side, which allowed African-American congregants to climb a steep ladder to the gallery without entering the main entrance. This means of segregation is a rare, architectural survival pointed to the shared but separate participation in the worship service at this Old School Baptist Church. The interior of the main sanctuary is important as well for its untouched finishes including tiger maple grained pews.

The history of the Baptist Meeting House in the community of Woolford states that the original meeting house was erected in 1791 on a three-quarter acre parcel of "Woolford's Content," land that had been supplied by Stevens Woolford. While a structure surely stood on the site at the head of Fishing Creek by the early 1790s, the present meeting house dates from the second quarter of the nineteenth century. The burial ground next to the church is defined by several dozen graves of the Woolford and Mace families.