Photo Record
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Object # |
2008.001.130 |
Object Name |
Digital photograph |
Description |
Churches - Methodism arrived in Sippican Village about 1820. The Reformed Methodist Church survived until 1865 at the intersection of Point and County roads. Thereafter, a breakaway group formed the Methodist Episcopal Church and met in the County Road Schoolhouse. About 1888, the congregation bought the school building and moved it to its present location at 13 County Road. With attendance that numbered 100 worshippers by 1870-as many as 140 in times of good weather-the church still could not support a full-time minister. It had 49 pastors in its first one hundred years of existence. Despite this high turnover, the Methodist Episcopal Church managed an expansion in 1870. In 1882 the church purchased a reed organ. A parsonage was built at 570 Front Street in 1886. The church gained a bell tower in 1902. When the struggling Marion Universalist Church finally closed in 1957, it bequeathed its pump organ to the Methodist Church. Fifty years later, the Methodist Church held its last service on July 1,2007. |
Search Terms |
County Road Route 105 Methodist Church County Road Schoolhouse Bell Tower Postcard History of Marion |
Date |
07/24/2010 |
Accession number |
2008.001 |