All Saints Church, All Saints Episcopal Church, keeps its place at 106 West Church Street in the Historic District of Frederick. Founded in 1742 when Maryland’s General Assembly separated the westernmost parts of the vast Piscataway (Broad Creek Church) parish to form the large All Saints Parish, this parish has existed since then. The Assembly in 1747 provided for buying land and constructing the parish church on Carroll’s Creek and for chapels of ease between the Monocacy and Seneca creeks (a site that ultimately became Poolesville) and another between the Antietam and Cannogocheague creeks (that ultimately became Hagerstown).
You can trace how parish lines and travel once shaped communities: a 1770 law proposed separating Eden (or Zion or St. Peter’s) parishes and St. John’s Parish, Hagerstown, but those measures never took effect before the American Revolution. Later, in 1786, the General Assembly separated the westernmost parts again to create a new “Frederick Parish” named for Frederick Calvert, the last colonial... Today this building serves as the seat of All Saints Parish in the Diocese of Maryland, which covers most of Frederick County and once covered most of Western Maryland.
The church and the streets of the Historic District stretch out before you.