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Grand Rapids, MI. South Congregational Church records, 1850-2001.
Collection
Identifier: RG4657
Abstract
The origins of South Congregational Church start in 1874 when women from the Park Avenue Congregational Church organized a Sunday School. This would eventually lead to a "Mr. Gilbert" donating land for construction of a chapel. The new chapel was located between Sheldon and Jefferson on Delaware Street and finished in 1876. The South Congregational Church was officially organized on December 12, 1878 with 43 charter members. The church would see steady growth until the end of the 1900s, when...
Dates:
1850-2001
Found in:
Congregational Library & Archives
Wollaston, Quincy, Mass. Wollaston Congregational Church records, 1874-1968.
Collection
Identifier: RG1048
Abstract
On September 23, 1874, a meeting was called for the organization of a Congregational church in Wollaston, Quincy, Massachusetts. The resulting Wollaston Congregational Society met in local churches and member residences until the completion of the first meeting house, which was erected in 1875 and dedicated in 1876. Wollaston Congregational Church was officially incorporated on November 15, 1898. Construction on a replacement for the first meeting house ended with a dedication on March 28...
Dates:
1874-1968
Found in:
Congregational Library & Archives