Bixler's United Brethren Church

In 1877, Peter Bixler asked his son Benjamin to build a meeting house for public worship on the family farm in Bachman Valley near Westminister, Maryland. Since a membership had not yet been established, the meeting house was built as a venture of faith. Benjamin Bixler willed the meeting house and cemetary to the Church of the Brethern in the Pennsylvania Conference. In 1904, the original log meeting house was dismantled and in 1905 a larger brick building was erected. The church suffered a severe fire near Chistmas, 1953. The renovated church was rededicated in June, 1954. The basement was excavated in 1960 to construct Sunday School rooms, kitchen and bathrooms. Bixler's Evangelical United Brethern Church became Bixler's United Methodist Church with the 1968 merger of the two denominations.