Old Pine Church is a mid-19th-century church near
Purgitsville,
West Virginia. It is among the earliest remaining log churches in
Hampshire County, along with
Capon Chapel and
Mount Bethel Church. Constructed in 1838 to serve as a
nondenominational church, it may also have been built as a meeting place for
Schwarzenau Brethren adherents, known as "Dunkers" or "Dunkards". The church probably hosted German
Methodist settlers as well. By 1870, most services were for the Brethren denomination, and in 1878, the church's congregation split into White Pine Church of the Brethren and Old Pine Church congregations. Both continued to use the church until 1907. Old Pine Church reportedly housed a school in the early 20th century while still serving as a center for worship. In 1968, residents of the Purgitsville community raised funds to restore the church. It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places in 2012 for its "significant settlement-era rural religious architecture in the
Potomac Highlands." (
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