The family of William and Mary Allen Stiggins emigrated here from Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1882, including their daughter Mary Jane, who had studied medicine, and her fiancé Thomas Whittet, a former sea captain. Whittet is credited with naming Anchorage, saying this would be where he would drop anchor. Thomas and Mary Jane married in the early 1880s, and in 1896 they deeded land for a church and cemetery to serve the communities of Anchorage and Rossville. The oldest marked graves, for Mary Allen Stiggins and Annie Theresa Farran, both date to 1896. The Whittets’ general store served as the Anchorage Post Office from 1889 to 1935. Mary Jane practiced medicine throughout the area and delivered many babies, including all nine children in the J.M. Rogers family. George Bopp, Jr., a World War II casualty, is buried here. A frame church stood until 1958, when a cinder block building replaced it on the same site. By 1979, the congregation was inactive, and the property was deeded to the Anchorage Cemetery Association, which maintains the burial ground and chapel.