Miller: the first congregations

From the county histories, on Miller township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1913, including the spelling of the day and the errors the scanner made. It has not been rewritten, summarised or added to.

The present church edifice was built in 1907. In 1877 an imposing brick church, of Gothic design, was erected by the Methodist church of Liverpool, which congregation had been organized many years before. The cost of the building was about $5,000. Wesley chapel, in Miller township, Huntingdon county, was dedicated on December 17, 1880, by Rev. E. J. Gray. An old house of worship had been built here about 1846 by Joseph Miller, but the congregation ran down for a time and had to be revived before the new thurch was built. In 1903 a Methodist church was dedicated at Yeagertown and two years later the Highland Park church was organized. The latter held services in the hose house for some time, but later a building was erected through the generosity of Mrs, Elizabeth L. Rhodes, and the church is known as the "Rhodes Memorial Church." The Bethel African Methodist church of Lewistown was organized in 1816 by Rev. Richard Allen and Bishop White, of the Protestant Episcopal church, and the former acted as pastor until 1831. In 1872 a lot was purchased on West Juniata street and a church erected at a cost of $1,800. Additions costing about $700 were made a few years later. The Wesley African Methodist Episcopal church was organized in 1872 and meets on West Third Street, Huntingdon also has two colored Methodist churches , the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church at the corner of Sixth and Moore streets and Payne chapel.John W. Jordan, ed., History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913) · character 871,395 of the scanned text

Checked 2026-09-10 · Quoted from the county histories

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