Show view showing old st pauls in mount vemon and a corner of the grave yard this structure was once used as headquarters by general washington toi A plan ia afoot to restore it because of its associations with the early life plan to restore old st pauls i in mt vemon announcement that st pauls east cheater episcopal church in mount vernon would be ande into a national historic and religious shrine recalls that the original church of that name was built before it Is the plan of the rector rev W harold resident chaplain of the episcopal actors guild and hs vestry to restore the present church which Is one hundred sixty seven years old to establish a museum and to build an outdoor sanctuary in one corner of the graveyard A drive for with which to make the transformation Is being started by the parish st pauls eastchester East chester Is older by a few years than st pauls chapel broadway and fulton street which was built by the british and later became part of the trinity parish of the protestant episcopal church the parish of st paul s goes much further back and la one of the oldest in america hospital in revolution services have been held there for years with only one break that was when the building was command as a hospital in the revolutionary war the church stands near the intersection of south columbus avenue and south third avenue mount ver non accessible by way of the boston post road or the road station of the new lork westchester and boston railroad it was a center of worship before there was a good road to boston it has a churchyard with gravestones dating back years or 72 years before our government was founded aaron burr practiced law there when the church was used as a courthouse the names of many families linked to the early development of our country were on the rolls of the old East ches ter chunh ground fought over located in the very path of the revolutionary struggle old st pauls was in the area traversed in going to con and ev england just eight een miles north of the settlement of new york the strip bettien long island sound and the hudson was the famous neutral ground of american history because it wis not for long in the hands either of the brit ish or the colonials the present stone edifice stands on the very spot occupied by the first meeting house and Is the third build ing which his served the parish surrounding green it ap pears to have started near an indian path which subsequently became rod it was aled 11 II geons in the early days aft er anne hutchinson it retained this title until when by raal charter it was enacted that the plantation shall continue and retain ie name of est chester the name was taken from that of chester england |