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Our History: When the United States first gained its independence, Anglican preachers who used the writings and ideas of John Wesley met in Baltimore in 1784. They formally adopted Wesley's methods and books and established the Methodist Episcopal Church. "The people called Methodists" have been in the Haw River area since the early 1800's. On the hill here the river beside Trollinger's...