The Lovely Lane Meeting House in Baltimore, MD, was the site on December 24, 1784, where the American Methodist Episcopal Church was formed. John Wesley apparently didn’t like the idea of the Americans starting their church organization, but they ordained Francis Asbury as their first bishop anyway. The Methodist Episcopal Church would eventually (after various mergers) become the United Methodist Church. This plaque is about all that is left of the meeting house location, but the Lovely Lane Chapel Methodist Church relocated into a beautiful building.
