High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yeocomico Church is an historic church in Westmoreland County in the U.S. state of Virginia. The original wooden structure was built in 1655. It was replaced in 1706 by a structure built of locally fired bricks. It was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1970. The author John Dos Passos is buried in the cemetery of the church. Like most early churches in Virginia, Yeocomico Church's parish membership has changed as the population of Westmoreland County population grew or shifted. This is the fourth oldest complete church in Virginia preceded by Newport Parish in Smithfield 1680,York-Hampton Parish Church (Grace Church) 1697, and St. Peter's in New Kent County 1701. The original part of the present building can be assigned a date of 1706 according to a dating brick in the south east wall. The north wing was most likely erected circa 1725.

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