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Original log meeting house was erected 1737 near the Big Spring. Church was fully organized, October 1738. Present stone structure was built 1789, and in 1790 the trustees laid out Newville as a town on the church-owned glebe.
Erected 1985 by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. (Marker Number 197.)
In the Very Historic Big Spring Graveyard at Newville
While, in attendance at a recent meeting of the Carlisle Presbytery, at Newville, Mr. Thomas H. West, elder from the Presbyterian Church here, walked through the old Presbyterian Graveyard at that place and found the following dates on some of the tomb stones:
James Neal, 1793
Martha Graham, 1777;
Mrs. John Stevenson, 1780
Paul Pierce, 1784;
Daniel McDaniel, 1789;
Rev. Robert Craighead. 1739, he having died in the pulpit.
This is one of the oldest burying grounds in the country, about 30 acres having been deeded to the Presbyterian congregation by William Penn. One of the interesting sights is a monument erected by the State over the grave of William Denning, who was a blacksmith and made cannon for the Continentals during the Revolutionary War.
Located in Newville, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
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