MG 086 - Methodist Churches in Dauphin County
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Contains the programs, directories, clippings of:
Grace United Methodist Church, 1880-1990
Stevens Memorial Methodist Church, 1959
Fifth Street United Methodist Church, 1950 & 1970
Riverside Methodist Church, 1956
Hummelstown Methodist Church, 1951
Millersburg Methodist Church, 1966
St. Paul's Methodist Church, 1957
St. Mark's Methodist Church in Coxestown, 1935
St. Mark's United Methodist Church, 1978
First United Methodist Church of Hershey, 1968
Wesley United Methodist Church, 1990
Riverside Methodist Episcopal Chapel, 1980
Locust Street M. E. Church, 1862
Camp Curtin Memorial Methodist Church, 1989
Epworth United Methodist Church, 1965, 1990
Includes, also, a bound volume of early circuit-rider records, 1790-1831.
Background
The dedication of the first Methodist church in Harrisburg was in 1820 in a small building at Second and South Streets. The direct outgrowth of that first congregation is the present-day Grace Church, and by the early 1900's seven other congregations were formed as the growth of the community demanded. Those seven were St. Paul's, Ridge Avenue, Stevens Memorial, Fifth Street, Camp Curtin Memorial, Epworth, and Riverside.
Date(s): 1790-1990
Extent: 1 box, 18 folders, 53 enclosures