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We would like to provide the residents of  Painter  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Painter Home page. The Painter Home page provides as much information as possible on Painter. Knowing Painter’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Painter’s Home page, you will also find Painter’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Painter has a population of 231. 45.5% of Painter’s inhabitants are Male, and 54.5 are female. 40.1% of Painter is married and 60.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $97,436, and the average rent is $1,050. Household median income in Painter is $40,417, and the individual median income is $23,125. Painter’s Ethnic is the following: White(69.3%), Black(23.4%), Hispanic(22.1%), Other(5.6%), Multiple(1.7%).


From its earliest settlement, most villages and towns on the Eastern Shore of Virginia were located near the coasts at navigable ports where crops or livestock could be transported by boat. The coming of the New York, Pennsylvania, and Norfolk Railroad in the 1880s initiated a shift in population and commerce to the center of the shore and created the need for new towns, including the town of Painter. The Painter-Garrisons United Methodist Church was established in nearby Mappsburg, Virginia in 1784 when Bishop Francis Asbury made his first of six visits to the home of Jonathan Garrison.


The congregation constructed a chapel by 1787, the first house of worship to be built by the Methodist Episcopal Church on the Eastern Shore. The present church was erected in 1855 and was the scene of the establishment of the Independent Convention of Accomack, a group of Methodist Churches that left the northern church in 1860 and, at the close of the war, joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.


By the turn of the 20th century, as the population continued to shift from Mappsburg to Painter and other new towns, the church erected a second building in Painter in 1906. Twenty years later, the older church was moved to Painter and adjoined to the existing building at which time it took the name Painter-Garrisons Church.


The 1855 building is today the second-oldest Methodist Church building on the Eastern Shore.Willowdale and Central High School are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.


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