350th Anniversary: 1675-2025

FEBRUARY 8-9, 2025 marks the KICK-OFF for the celebration of the 350th Anniversary of the Church in Dorchester Parish: 1675-2025

**SATURDAY – FEBRUARY 8 (FREE EVENT): Starting at 10:00 am**

Our 350th Anniversary Kick-Off Weekend commences on the 210th anniversary of the “Battle of the Ice Mound”, which took place in 1815 off the nearby James and Taylors Islands.

Old Trinity Church will be hosting the Chesapeake Independent Blues and the Fort McHenry Guard, both nationally recognized War of 1812 interpretive organizations from Maryland. “The Blues” and “The Guard” will be visiting our campus to pay honor to the war veterans who are buried on our sacred grounds — among them, those who fought in the American Revolution and the War of 1812 (including members of the 48th Maryland Regiment).

The day’s events will feature:

–A fife & drum military salute

–A three-volley musket salute across Church Creek

–Prayers of Commemoration for American Veterans

–A recreation of Militia actions at the Battle of the Ice Mound

–A special “Star-Spangled Banner” flag program with the public

–The new NPS “Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail” mobile visitor center onsite

**SUNDAY – FEBRUARY 9 at 11:00 am (during our regularly scheduled service)**

You are invited back to Old Trinity Church on Sunday, February 9 at 11:00 am, for the first of three HISTORIC ANGLICAN SERVICES that we plan to do over the course of our 350th Anniversary year.

This service will feature Holy Communion from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, the liturgy in use when our “Venerable Pile of Bricks” first began holding services for the early settlers of Dorchester County in the 17th century.

Vestments and furnishings will be arranged in keeping with the period. Father Dan will use his time in the pulpit to explain the changes that the Anglican/Episcopal tradition has seen since Old Trinity’s construction ca. 1675.