CLOSED CHURCHES WITHIN THE
PRESENT BOUNDARIES OF THE
SUSQUEHANNA CONFERENCE OF
THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
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COLUMBIA COUNTY PA
Almedia EV
Location: 123 Church Street, village of Almedia
Municipality: Scott township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
In Bloomsburg, from the intersection of PA 487 and Old
Berwick Road, go east 3 miles on Old Berwick Road to the village of Almedia. Turn north
on Church Street and go 1 block. The
church is on the left.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical
Church
Journal references:
1971,97 –
discontinued
1972, 302 – permission to sell
1975(1),116 – sold to Shiloh Bible Church
Brief History:
Final disposition:
The property was sold to the Shiloh Bible Church
for $12,500.
Asbury ME
Address: 413 Harrison Road, community of Asbury
Municipality: Fishing Creek township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
From Orangeville, go north 4 miles
on PA 487 to Zaners Bridge Road. Go east 1 mile on Zaners
Bridge Road to Asbury Road. Go south 1
mile on Asbury Road to Harrison Road.. The church is on the northwest corner of
Asbury Road and Harrison Road.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Journal references:
2013,149 – merged into Orangeville
Brief History:
Final disposition:
Bear Gap ME
Location: Wynn School Road
Municipality: Cleveland township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
From the community of Bear Gap (in Northumberland County)
on PA 54, go east 1 mile on Bear Gap Road to Middle Road. Go north 1 mile on Middle Road to Wynn School
Road. Go west ¾ mile on Wynn School
Road. The site is on the north side of
the road.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
Journal references:
1964,81 –
permission to sell property and raze building; all proceeds to Cemetery
Association
1964,93 – discontinued
Brief History:
This church was part of the Elysburg
charge. It last appears in the
conference statistical report in the 1964 journal with 35 members, with no
mention of it made in the appointments for that year.
Final disposition:
Benton MP
[no picture]
Location:
Municipality: borough of Benton
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
The exact location has not been determined.
Historic Conference:
Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Protestant
Church.
Journal references:
Brief History:
This building was erected in 1872 through the
efforts of Rev. A.E. Kline of the Pine Creek Circuit. The congregation disbanded in 1886, and the
building was sold.
Final disposition:
Berwick MP
[no picture]
Location: “Park Avenue and Front Street”
Municipality: borough of Berwick
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
The site is in the west end of
Berwick, but the exact location has not been determined. “Park Avenue” may not be the present Park
Boulevard.
Historic Conference:
Pennsylvania Conference of the
Methodist Protestant Church
Journal references:
1910,16
– new Sunday School room added
1921,39 – anniversary services held 5/7/21
to mark reopening of the church
Brief History:
The building was erected in
1903. The journal states that the 1910
SS room opened onto the sanctuary to give a total seating capacity of “over
500.” Apparently the congregation did
not prosper and services were discontinued about 1911, but were restarted about
1920. The Philadelphia Inquirer for
11/22/1909, page 3, reports the following: The most unusual
parade Berwick has ever witnessed was held last evening, when upwards of a
hundred and fifty converts at revival services now in progress at the West
Berwick Methodist Protestant Church, together with hundreds of church workers,
marched through the principal streets of the town, singing songs of prayer and
praise. Following this demonstration of religious fervor, a mass meeting of
church workers of Berwick and West Berwick was held in the Bower Memorial
Evangelical Church.
Final disposition:
Berwick Unity Mission ME
Location: 910 Warren Street
Municipality: borough of Berwick
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Warren Street crosses Front Street (US 11) and Orange Street
(PA 93) about 8 blocks west of Market Street.
Proceed north on Warren Street from either intersection to Fourth
Avenue. The site is on the southeast
corner of Warren Street and Fourth Avenue.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
Journal references:
Brief History:
This Slavic Mission began in 1905 when a
Polish deaconess was assigned to West Berwick.
A chapel was erected in 1909 and a substantial settlement house was
added in 1923. Foreign language pastors
were appointed to the work 1913-1935. A
history of the mission is given the “Home Missionary Edith Orvis: The Soul of
Berwick’s Unity Mission” article in the 2007 volume of The Chronicle, pages 86-96.
Final disposition:
The structure
was sold and has been converted into an apartment complex of approximately 12
units.
Bethel ME
Address: 168 Bethel Drive
Municipality: Franklin township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
From Catawissa, go 5 miles east on PA 487 to
Bethel Church Road. GO south 1 mile on
Bethel Church Road. The property is on
the right.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Journal references:
Brief History:
This congregation’s first building was erected in 1859 “on the road from Willowvale to Numidia” – assumed to be at the site of the adjacent
cemetery. In 1910 the original building
was removed and the present site was excavated. Bethel was on the Elysburg charge until the 1968
denomination union, after which it was placed on the Catawissa circuit with two
former United Brethren congregations (St. Paul’s and Fisherdale).
In 2022 the remaining members voted 10-1
to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church, and that action was approved
by the 2022 Annual Conference.
Final disposition:
The
congregation disaffiliated from the United Methodist Church 7/14/22 to operate
as an independent church.
Brandon ME
Location: Central Road
Municipality: Sugarloaf township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
From the intersection of PA 118 and PA 42, go 5 miles
east of PA 118 to Central Road. Go ½
mile north on Central Road. The building
is on the right.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church
Journal references:
1995,221 – merged into
Central
Brief History:
Final disposition:
Center EV
Location:
Municipality:
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Historic Conference:
Journal references:
Brief History:
Final disposition:
Central
ME
[a.k.a. Simpson Chapel]
Location:
Municipality:
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
The structure stood on the right side of the road,
just after making the right turn at the north end of Central onto the road to
Jamison City.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church
Journal references:
1891,64 – church building at Central (aka Red Hill) built and
dedicated
Brief History:
This structure was erected about 1865 and
named Simpson Chapel. The Methodist
Episcopal congregation later purchased and moved into the Methodist Protestant
building in the south end of town.
Simpson Chapel was dissembled in 1928 and rebuilt as a hunting cabin in
Elk Grove, just across the bridge.
Final disposition:
Central MP
Location:
Municipality:
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Historic Conference:
Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Protestant
Church
Journal references:
1922,52 –
declared extinct
1923,58 – sold for $750
Brief History:
This structure was erected in 1887 and later
sold to the Methodist Episcopal congregation.
Final disposition:
This building, improved and enlarged, is now home
to Christ United Methodist Church.
Chestnut Grove ME
[no picture]
Location:
Municipality: Glenwood township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Historian
Charles Berkheimer describes the church building as
being “one mile north of Rohrsburg.”
Historic Conference:
Central
Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Journal references:
1882,41 – church
building under construction
1883,40 – church building dedicated
1907,35 – $145 proceeds from sale of
church building
Brief History:
This appointment was originally part of the
Orangeville circuit, but in 1882 it became part of the newly formed Rohrsburg charge.
Note: This appears to be erroneously
referred to on occasion as Chestnut Ridge.
This is not to be confused with Chestnut Grove in Lycoming County (a
forerunner of Pine Summit) or Chestnut Grove in Luzerne County (now Loyalville UMC).
Final disposition:
Chestnut
Ridge ME (same as Chestnut Grove?)
[no picture]
Location:
Municipality:
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Historic Conference:
Journal references:
Brief History:
Final disposition:
Coles Creek MP
[no picture]
Location:
Municipality:
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Historic Conference:
Eastern Conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church
Journal references:
1922,52 – declared
extinct
1923,58 – building (not including land)
sold for $175
Brief History:
Final disposition:
Divide Sylvan Chapel ME
Location: community of Divide
Municipality: Jackson township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
The church is on the old main road.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church
Journal references:
1895,56 –
dedicated December 24, 1893, on Jamison City charge at cost of $795
Brief History:
This property was deeded to the Methodists
in 1893, and a church building was erected.
The Methodist Episcopal Church stopped supplying preachers here in the
1920’s, and in 1936 the building was sold to the Divide Union Church.
Final disposition:
Elk Grove ME
Location: community of Elk Grove
Municipality: Sugarloaf township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Elk Grove no longer exists as a town. Traveling from Central, turn left on the
first “street” (just after crossing the second bridge) in Elk Grove. At the end of this street, turn left (behind
an existing cabin) onto the “street” that parallels the creek. The church stood on the second lot on the
left.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
Journal references:
Brief History:
Financial contributions are listed from this
class are listed in the conference journals as late as 1909. The property is not listed in the 1915
journal listing of appointments/properties.
Final disposition:
Espy Zion EV
Location:
Municipality:
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical
Church
Journal references:
1985,323 – merged into
Espy St. Paul’s
1994,351 – reported sold in 1987
Brief History:
Final disposition:
Fairview MP
Location:
Municipality:
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Historic Conference:
Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church
Journal references:
1893,9 – church
building dedicated
1922,52 – declared extinct
Brief History:
Final disposition:
Fisherdale UB
Address: 268 Fisherdale Road, community of Fisherdale
Municipality: Cleveland township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
From Catawissa, go south on PA 42 through
Numidia. Proceed south on PA 42 from
Numidia 1.5 miles to Bear Gap Road. Go
west on Bear Gap Road 1.7 miles to Fisherdale Road.
Go north 0.25 miles on Fisherdale Road. The church is on the left.
Historic Conference:
East Pennsylvania
Conference of the United Brethren Church
Journal References:
2013,149 – merged into Catawissa Mt. Zion
2014,S-30 &
S-38 – all members transferred to Mt. Zion
Brief History:
Final Disposition:
Foundryville [EV] ME
Address: 128 Foundryville Road, community of Foundryville
Municipality: Briar Creek township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
From downtown Berwick, go north on Market
Street until it ends at 16th Street.
Bear right onto Summerhill Avenue (which becomes Foundryville
Road and then Summerhill Road) for 2 miles to the community of Foundryville. The
building is on the right.
Historic Conference:
[Central Pennsylvania Conference of the
Evangelical Association]
Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Journal references:
1870, 24 – recently erected building
purchased
Brief History:
This building was optimistically erected by
the Evangelical Association following an 1867 revival on the Columbia circuit
that produced 175 new converts. Classes
were established at Foundryville and Beach Haven with
16 and 20 members respectively – but these classes could not compete with the
Methodists. The Foundryville
building was sold to the Methodists, and the Beach Haven class lost its
momentum when the Methodists erected a building there in 1870.
This class was attached to the
Beach Haven circuit and was never large.
The church closed July 7, 2013.
Final disposition:
The property was sold
10/18/2013 to adjacent property owner Dean Youlls Jr.
for $5001.
Fowlersville ME
Address: 10 Golf Course Road, community of Fowlersville
Municipality: North Centre township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Journal References:
Brief History:
Final disposition:
The property was sold at auction on 10/8/22
for a total price of $137,500.
Freewill UB
Location: 853 Old Reading Road
Municipality: Roaring Creek township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
From Catawissa, go south on PA 42 2.5 miles to Kulp Road. Go east
on Kulp Road (following the main flow around curves)
1.5 miles until the last curve leads onto Old Reading Road. Go south on Old Reading Road 1.5 miles. The building is on the left, next to the
cemetery.
Historic Conference:
East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren
Church
Journal references:
1976(2),99 –
discontinued; sold to Cemetery Association
Brief History:
Final disposition:
Frosty Valley ME
[no picture]
Location:
Municipality:
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church
Journal references:
1933,61
– permission to sell
1935,71 – permission to sell Buckhorn
Church [sic], Frosty Valley on Buckhorn charge?
Brief History:
Final disposition:
Greenwood EV
Location:
Municipality:
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Historic Conference:
Journal references:
Brief History:
Final disposition:
Guava EV
[no picture]
Location:
Municipality:
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical
Church
Journal references:
1929,57 – sold at
sheriff’s sale
Brief History:
Final disposition:
Hamline ME
Location: Hamline Church Road
Municipality: Benton township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
From the
intersection of PA487 and PA239 in Benton, go east on PA239 3 miles to Hamline
Church Road. The property in on the
southeast corner of PA239 [Shickshinny Road] and Hamline Church Road.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church
Journal references:
1880,36 – church
building erected
1986,306 – no longer listed
1990,353 – abandoned
1992,352/356 – sold to Cemetery
Association
Brief History:
This land appears to have been deeded to the
Methodist Church by the Gibbons families in two transactions: May 29, 1879, for
the erection of a church; November 29, 1899, for extensions of the
cemetery. The Hamline congregation
merged into the Benton congregation on January 1, 1986, with the intent of
using the building for occasional special services. On May 11, 1989, the merged congregation
requested that building be considered closed.
Final disposition:
The property was sold to the Hamline Cemetery
Association in 1991 for $250.00 plus legal fees. The building is used by the “Hamline Church
Fellowship.”
Ikeler ME
Location: Ikeler Church Road
Municipality: Mount Pleasant township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
From the center of Millville, go south on PA42 for ½
mile to the Y for Hill Road in the southern end of town. Bear left onto Hill Road, which after 1 mile
become Ikeler Church Road, and continue another ½
mile. The church site is on the right,
and the cemetery is on the left.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church
Journal references:
1973,99 – discontinued
1974,210 – sold to Cemetery Association
Brief History:
This building was erected as the result of
many area persons being converted in a September 1899 revival at the church in Eyers Grove.
Final disposition:
Iola ME
Location: 2938 PA42, village of Iola
Municipality: Greenwood township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
From the intersection of PA42 and PA254 in Milleville, go 1 mile north on PA42 to the village of
Iola. The chur
is on the east side of the highway
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church
Journal references:
1883,40 – church
building dedicated
1988,310/339 – discontinued
1990,353 – abandoned
1992,259; 1993,349 – sold to Christian
Gospel Fellowship
Brief History:
The first church building in Iola was
erected in 1850 on land donated by Woodrow Robbins and replaced by the present
structure in 1882 – which was patterned after the Methodist church in
Stillwater. The addition to the rear was
made in 1953.
Final disposition:
The
property is home to the Christian Gospel Fellowship, which has added separate,
new and larger facilities at the rear of the property.
Jamison City ME
Location: community of Jamison City
Municipality: Sugarloaf township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Jamison City is
now essentially a ghost town. The
building stands at the southeast corner of Third and Broad Streets. The parsonage for the circuit stood on the
north side of Water Street, the fourth lot east of Third Street.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church
Journal references:
1893,52 – two
building lots, for church & parsonage, offered by E.L. Fritz of Bloomsburg
1895,56 – church building dedicated
November 13, 1893, for a cost of $1540
Brief History:
The cornerstone reads “ME Church September
10, 1893”
Final disposition:
The building is now
a hunting camp.
Kile EV
Location:
Municipality: Sugarloaf township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the
Evangelical Association
Journal references:
East Pennsylvania
Conference of the Evangelical Association
1898, 19 – authorized to
take out mortgage
Brief History:
This church was on the Waller charge. The congregation met in the Kile school house along Fishing Creek before erecting a
church building in the early 1890’s. The
land had been given by John W. Kile, and the building
erected, before the 1894 denomination split – but before the formal transfer of
the deed. When Kile
and the majority of the congregation sided with the United Evangelicals, they
attempted to maintain control of the structure – but they were taken to court
by the Evangelical Association. The
courts ruled that giving permission to build the church was implied transfer of
the deed, and the Association kept the property during the 1894-1922
split. The congregation never was
strong, and the building was finally sold at a sheriff’s sale in 1928 to
satisfy a mortgage.
Final disposition:
Lime Ridge Bethany EV
Location: 6480 Fourth Street [Old Berwick Road], village of
Lime Ridge
Municipality: South Centre township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Exit Bloomsburg on the Old Berwick Road on go 6 miles
east to the village of Lime Ridge. [In
Bloomsburg, from the east end of Main Street go south on East Street to Seventh
Street, go east on Seventh Street 2.5 block to the Y where Old Berwick Road
goes off to the right.]
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical
Church
Journal references:
1983,322/272
– discontinued/permission to raze and sell to Cemetery Association
1984,289/290 - closed
Brief History:
This congregation had its beginning as a Bible
class of 55 members. For several years
the group met in the local school house.
A lot was purchased from Lindsey and Julia Wooley and a frame church
building was erected in 1885. Following
the 1968 denominational merger, most of the congregation drifted toward the
larger former Methodist church in town.
Final disposition:
The church
building has been torn down and the land filled in to become part of the Lime
Ridge EUB Cemetery.
Lime Ridge ME
Address: 6405 Fourth Street [Old
Berwick Road], village of Lime Ridge
Municipality: South Centre township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Fourth Street is the old US 11. Exit Bloomsburg on the Old Berwick Road and go
east 5 miles to the village of Lime Ridge. The church is on the left. [In
Bloomsburg, from the east end of Main Street go south on East Street to Seventh
Street, go east on Seventh Street 2.5 block to the Y where Old Berwick Road
goes off to the right.]
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church
Journal references:
Brief History:
In 2022 the congregation voted 41-0 to
disaffiliate from the United Methodist denomination. That action was approved by the 2022 Annual
Conference.
Final disposition:
Mainville ME
Location: 768 Mainville Drive, village of Mainville
Municipality: Main township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Mainville is on PA 339, 5 miles southwest of the I-80/PA-339
(Mifflinville) exit.
The property is the last structure in the west side of the road as you
head north out of Mainville toward Bloomsburg.
Historic Conference:
Central
Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Journal references:
1882,41 –
building dedicated
Brief History:
The ground for this church was donated by
John W. Shuman in 1880, and the church building was erected in 1881 and
dedicated February 12, 1882. Mainville was always on the Mifflinville
charge (for many years a 4-point charge with Mifflinville,
Mainville, Fowlersville and
Lime Ridge). The last recorded member
was 23 in 1947, page 156. The following
year Mifflinville showed an increase in membership of
38, and so it appears that the Mainville members were
transferred to that church. The 2011 150th
anniversary booklet of the Mifflinville UMC states:
“In 1946, the Mainville church closed and the
building was used as a Community Sunday School.
The Community Sunday School still holds classes today.”
Final disposition:
The Mifflinville quarterly conference, with appropriate
approval, sold the property to the Emanuel Lutheran and Reformed congregation
in 1948 for $1. It appears that
congregation, located well north of the village, wanted an in-town Sunday School presence. The
Lutherans eventually erected their own building closer to town, and the Mainville building evolved into an independent ministry
that disbanded about 2020.
McHenry ME
[no picture]
Location: community of McHenry
Municipality: Orange township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
This may be the site now occupied by the McHenry
Cemetery, two miles west of Orangeville.
A Lutheran-Reformed-Presbyterian log building was erected there in 1810
and used until it collapsed under a weight of snow in 1837 – but there appears
to be no definitive record of a leter church building
erected at that same site.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church
Journal references:
1880,36 –
building projected
1882,40 – building dedicated
Brief History:
This building was dedicated September 25,
1881. This appointment was originally
part of the Orangeville circuit, but in 1882 it became part of the newly formed
Rohrsburg charge.
Note: This building is sometimes
erroneously referred to as McKendree.
Final disposition:
McIntyre ME
Location:
Municipality:
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Historic Conference:
Journal references:
Brief History:
Final disposition:
Numidia Trinity ME
Location: White Church Road, south of Numidia
Municipality: Locust township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
From Catawissa,
go south 7 miles on PA 42, just past the community of Numidia to White Church
Road. As PA 42 curves to the east, White
Church Road and Todd Manor Road insect simultaneously with PA 42 from the
west. The site/cemetery is at the
southwest corner of White Church and Todd Manor Roads. The site is marked in the 1876 county atlas.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
Journal references:
1873,32 – church
building erected
1931,49 – additional part of the cemetery
(missed before) transferred to Cemetery Association
Brief History:
In
1840 a number of Welsh immigrants settled in the area. Ten years later James Humphreys and Michael
Phillips gave a plot of ground two miles south of Numidia and a church was
erected. In 1864 Franklin Gearhart of the Catawissa
circuit established a Methodist Episcopal appointment there. George Wheary was one of the first members. Some of the Quakers,
and many English-speaking persons from German families, speedily connected
themselves with the class, which was served in connection with Slabtown. In 1871
the services were held in a school-house. The discomfort of this arrangement
led to the erection of Trinity Methodist Episcopal church about 1 mile north of
the old Welsh Chapel. The building was
completed at a cost of twenty-two hundred and fifty dollars, and dedicated in
the autumn of 1872. Isaac Dyer, Daniel Levan, Thomas Seaborne and William Kline
were the trustees at the time.
Final disposition:
Rupert ME
Address:
Municipality:
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
Journal references:
1885,44 –
dedicated 11/19/1884
Brief History:
Final disposition:
Salem EV
Location:
Municipality:
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Historic Conference:
Journal references:
Brief History:
Final disposition:
Slabtown ME
Location: Cemetery Hill Road, village of Slabtown
Municipality: Locust township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
From Catawissa, go south on PA 42 for 5 miles to Slabtown. Turn east
onto Cemetery Hill Road and go 50 yards.
The site is on the right, by what is known as the Methodist Cemetery (pictured
above at the right) – although the church building might not have been at the
same site as the cemetery.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church
Journal references:
1895,53 – new
church at Slabtown, center point on the Catawissa
circuit, much needed and projected for the coming year
Brief History:
This building was erected by the Reformed
church in 1848. Three years later a
Methodist camp-meeting in the vicinity resulted in many conversions, including
some of the most prominent Reformed members, and the building became a
Methodist house of worship. The cemetery
Final disposition:
St. Paul's UB
Address: Esther Furnace Road
Municipality: Cleveland township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
From Catawissa, go south 3.5 miles on PA
487 to Ashton Hollow Road. Turn left
onto Ashton Hollow Road and follow the signs to Lake Glory Campground (Ashton
Hollow Road to Hemlock Road to Eisenhower Road). Immediately after passing the lake, turn left
into Esther Furnace Road and proceed 0.5 miles.
The church is on the left, across Roaring Creek.
Historic Conference:
East Pennsylvania Conference of the United
Brethren Church
Journal References:
2013,149 – merged into Catawissa Mt. Zion
2014,S-30 &
S-38 – all members transferred to Mt. Zion
Brief History:
Final Disposition:
Stillwater ME
Location:
Municipality:
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church
Journal references:
1880,36
– building projected
1881,38 – church building erected
1928,624 – permission to sell
Brief History:
Final disposition:
Talmar Wesley Chapel ME
Address: village of Talmar
Municipality: Pine township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
From the intersection of PA 118 and PA 42,
go 1 miles south on PA 42 to Talmar Road. Go east 1 mile on Talmar
road to the crossroad with Woods Road.
The church is on the northwest corner of Woods Road and Talmar Road.
Historic Conference:
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
Journal References:
2014,143 – merged into Pine Center, which
was renamed Pine Wesley
Brief History:
This grove was selected and used for a campmeeting site in 1847.
The following spring a chapel was erected. The building was rebuilt in 1893. In the early 1900’s the appointment was on
the Jamison City charge. It was then on
the large 7-point Muncy Valley charge until being
placed on the former EUB Unityville charge in
1968. In 2014, the congregation merged
into Pine Center – a sister congregation which had also been transferred from Muncy Valley to Unityville in
1969.
Final Disposition:
Waller EV
Location:
Municipality:
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Historic Conference:
Journal references:
Brief History:
Final disposition:
Welsh Chapel UB
Location: PA 42, south of Numidia
Municipality: Locust township
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
From Catawissa, so south on PA 42 for 8 miles. The
site is on private land on the east side of the road, between where Rhoadestown and Bear Gap roads go off to the west, at what
is known as the Numidia Drive Burial Ground (pictured above). The site is marked
in the 1876 county atlas.
Historic Conference:
East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren
Church
Journal references:
Brief History:
In 1840 a number of Welsh immigrants settled
in the area. Ten years later James
Humphreys and Michael Phillips gave a plot of ground two miles south of Numidia
and a church was erected. The United
Brethren established an appointment there as early as 1857. By about 1861 most of the original Welsh
Baptists had migrated to Canada, and the United Brethren purchased the
building. In 1908 the appointment was
abandoned, and in 1908 the building was torn down
Final disposition:
White's ME
Location:
Municipality:
County: Columbia
State: PA
Directions:
Historic Conference:
Journal references:
1958,159 – entitled party declines to
claim property by the reversion clause; no further action
Brief History:
Final disposition: