Ebenezer Chapel (Marmet, West Virginia)
Ebenezer Chapel is a historic chapel on Ohio Avenue, south at Hillview Drive in Marmet, West Virginia.
Origins
The chapel was built in 1836 by slaves owned by Marmet's first settler, Leonard Morris. Mr. Morris originally named the area Elizaville. By 1848, the building was owned by Luke Wilcox, a local farmer and manager of a local salt works. The chapel was for many years part of a circuit traveled by preachers of the United Methodist Episcopal Church.Civil War
During the American Civil War the chapel served as a military headquarters and as a hospital for Union soldiers. Camp Piatt sits immediately across the river where today DuPont sits.Jacob Conrad Edelmann was a German immigrant who worked on the river in Brownstown. While under Confederate occupation in the Fall of 1862, Mr. Edelmann made extra money grinding grain for the Confederates. In 1863, Jacob Conrad Edelmann was arrested by Union soldiers and locked inside the chapel for 3 days. He begged for foreign protection, as he was not a United States citizen, and was released on these grounds. After the war, he went on to become a US citizen.