St. Andrew's Mountain Community Center

In 1886 a group of young men from Zion Church in Charles Town, built a raft and crossed the Shenandoah River, climbed the Blue Ridge Mountain, and started a Sunday School for the folks "shut off from the rest of the state." In the early days, the Rev. Dallas Tucker ferried the Shenandoah by raft and horseback to conduct these services. Through their efforts a chapel was built in 1889, which took the name of St. Andrew's On-the-Mount. In 1903 a worker's residence was built, now known as the Mountain Community Center {MCC}, and the original stone parish house was built in 1904. The MCC has been used as a mission day school, public school, community center that served as a clearing house for jobs, clothing and simple medical aid, a teaching and training center, and orphanage.