Show plan to restore old st pauls in mt vernon vemon announcement that st pauls east cast chester church in mount vernon would he be made into it national historic and religious religions shrine recalls that tile original church of that name was waa built before 5 i it Is the plan of the rector rev W darold resident chaplain of the actors gilld and ills his vestry lestry to restore the present church which Is one hundred sixty swen seven years old to establish a museum inua euni and to build an outdoor sanctuary in one corner of the A drive for with which to make the trans formation Is being started by the parish st pauls Kast chester Is older by a few years icara than st pauls chapel broadway and pulton fulton street which was built ly by the british and later became part of the trinity parish odthe of the Prote protestant stait EjAE episcopal copal church the purist of st pauls EMst chester goes much further fuit lier bad and Is one of tile the oldest in america Hoe hospital pital in revolution services anve been hold held there for years ysais with only one break that was when the building was commandeered lis is it a hospital in the ary war the church stands near the intersection of south col u albus it venue avenue and south third avenue mount version verion accessible by way of fit the boston post roud road or the road lloud station of the new york westchester and boston railroad it was a center of worship filp before tiler ethcie c wf was Is a good rond road to boston it has haa a churchyard hurc hurch livard yard with gravestones dating nick years or 72 yours years before our government was founded aaron burr practiced law there when the he church chuich wilsn ans used Red as a courthouse the names of anany families linked to the curly carly development of our country were on the rolls of the old ter church ground fought over located in the alie very path of the rev struggle old st pauls was lit in the area traversed in going to con and nd new angland plat just eighteen miles north of the settlement of new york the hie strip between long island sound and the lie hudson was ns the famous faro oui neutral ground of american lit story berkise it was not for long lit in tile hands either of tile the british or the Volon colonials fals the present stone edifice stands on tho the very pot occupied by tile first meeting lionso house and Is the third build ang which alch lins has served the parish surrounding ester green it ap pears to have started near an indian path which subsequently became road it was called in the early da days ys after anne it r retained this title until lcou when hy by royal charter cli arter it was enacted that the plantation shall continue and retain ye nanie of it east cheater 1 the name was taken from roni that eliat of chester ingland |