Join us Sunday, August 3rd at 2pm for the 99th annual Pilgrimage Service of the Elder Grey Meeting House and explore a piece of the North Waterboro's history. Visit https://eldergrey.org to learn more about this historical landmark.
Every year on the first Sunday in August, neighbors, extended families, individuals with historic ties and/or a special interest in the North Waterboro community, or just plain local history buffs, gather for what has traditionally been called a Pilgrimage Service at the Elder Grey Meeting House. Except for the dress of those in attendance and the cars parked along both sides of the lovely old country road, this scene could have occurred one or two hundred years ago
In the early 1900s, after years of only sporadic use of the Elder Grey Meeting House for Christmas events and evangelical Sundays, a group of neighbors and descendants of those who attended services there in the last century were concerned about the possible deterioration of the meeting house and cemetery from neglect. They decided to hold a "Pilgrimage Service" on August 29, 1926, "to commemorate the restoration of the Old Meeting House to its original condition as our fathers worshiped in it."
Ever since that notable occasion, a Pilgrimage Service has been held each year, now always on the first Sunday afternoon in August.