Dunkard Church
Dunkard may refer to: * Dunkards, colloquial name for the Schwarzenau Brethren, a German Anabaptist group founded 1708 * Dunkard Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, administrative territorial subdivision in the United States * Dunkard Creek, stream in Greene County, Pennsylvania and Monongalia County, West Virginia See also * Dunkard's Bottom (other) * Dunkard Brethren Church The Dunkard Brethren Church is a Conservative Anabaptist denomination of the Schwarzenau Brethren tradition, which organized in 1926 when they withdrew from the Church of the Brethren in the United States. The Dunkard Brethren Church observes ...

Schwarzenau Brethren
The Schwarzenau Brethren, the German Baptist Brethren, Dunkers, Dunkard Brethren, Tunkers, or sometimes simply called the German Baptists, are an Anabaptist group that dissented from Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Reformed European state churches during the 17th and 18th centuries. German Baptist Brethren emerged in some German-speaking states in western and southwestern parts of the Holy Roman Empire as a result of the Radical Pietist revival movement of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, where people began to read and study their Bibles on their own- rather than just being told by the Church what to believe and do. Hopeful of the imminent return of Christ and desiring to follow Jesus in their daily life, the founding Brethren abandoned State churches and officially formed a new church in 1708. They thereby attempted to translate the New Testament idea of brotherly love into concrete congregational ordinances for all the members. The Brethren rejected some Radical Pietist ...
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Dunkard Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania
Dunkard Township is a township in Greene County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,173 at the 2020 census. Dunkard Township takes its name from Dunkard Creek, which runs through it. Geography Dunkard Township occupies the southeastern corner of Greene County, bordered to the east by the Monongahela River, which forms the Fayette County line. The southern border of the township follows the Pennsylvania–West Virginia state line. Most of the township is drained by Dunkard Creek, an eastward-flowing tributary of the Monongahela. The southernmost part of the township is drained by smaller tributaries of the Monongahela, including Crooked Run. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which are land and , or 0.93%, are water. Bobtown is a census-designated place in Dunkard Township. Unincorporated communities in the township include Davistown, Bald Hill, Taylortown, Walnut Hill, West Point Marion, Dilliner, Moffitt St ...
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Dunkard Creek
Dunkard Creek is a stream that flows U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed August 15, 2011 through Greene County, Pennsylvania and Monongalia County, West Virginia, near the towns of Mount Morris, Pennsylvania, and Blacksville, West Virginia. It flows into the Monongahela River northwest of Point Marion, Pennsylvania, approximately three miles north of the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border. Mason-Dixon Historical Park is located on the banks of Dunkard Creek in an area where the creek crosses the border three times in less than one mile. The park grounds include Brown's Hill, the westernmost site from which Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon made astronomical observations during the original survey of the Pennsylvania–Maryland border in 1767. The creek is named for members of the Dunkard Brethren, a pacifist, nonconformist group of Christians who settled in the region during the 18th century and p ...
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Dunkard's Bottom (other)
Dunkard's Bottom or Dunkard Bottom may refer to the following places in the United States: * Dunkard's Bottom, Virginia, established on the New River in 1745, submerged under Claytor Lake 1939 * Dunkard Bottom, West Virginia, established on the Cheat River in 1753 See also * Camp Dawson (West Virginia) Camp Dawson is a West Virginia Army National Guard facility in Preston County, West Virginia, Preston County, West Virginia. It is one of a handful of dedicated military posts operated by the West Virginia National Guard (as opposed to smaller a ...