West Berne Reformed Church - Revision history

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__NOTOC__ [[Image:WBRefCh.jpg|250px|thumb|center|<center>West Berne Reformed Church around 1930]]
==Predecessors ==
*The “Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the Beaverdam” was organized in 1765.
*In 1786 the old log church was replaced with a frame building that served for the next 44 years. It was located on the hill where the [[Beaverdam Cemetery]] is now located.

==Organization of the West Berne Reformed Chruch==
In 1829 the congregation had again outgrown its building. It was decided to build two new buildings, one to the east in Corporation, also called [[Bernville]], now the [[Hamlet of Berne]] and the other to the west in Mechanicsville, (Beaverdam, later Peoria, now [[West Berne]].

*1830 the old building was razed and the salvage divided between the two churches. The Mechanicsville church was allotted the stove, the spire, “the iron dogs [Iron clamps that held the beams] and all the nails of said church,” plus 1600 feet of the ceiling. The church at West Berne retained the old name, the Beaver Dam Reformed Church.
*~1880 the steeple was rebuilt.
*1894-95 a church hall was added; about the same time the old clear-glass, small-paned windows were replaced by stained-glass memorial windows.
*1982, after more than a hundred and fifty years of worshipping separately, the two congregations again became one. At that time the West Berne sanctuary was torn down and the property sold.

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Image:West Berne 1.JPG|<center>West Berne Reformed Church, metal perpetual calender from the Willard Osterhout collection</center>
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 ==Predecessors ==
 *The “Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the Beaverdam” was organized in 1765.
-*In 1786 the old log church was replaced with a frame building that served for the next 44 years. It was located on the hill where the [[Beaverdam Cemetery]] is now located.
+*In 1786 the old log church was replaced with a frame building that served for the next 44 years. It was located on the hill where the [[Berne and Beaverdam Cemetery]] is now located.
 ==Organization of the West Berne Reformed Chruch==

West Berne Reformed Church - Revision history

Admin at 17:22, 29 January 2017

JElberfeld: /* Predecessors */

JElberfeld: Created page with "__NOTOC__ West Berne Reformed Church around 1930 ==Predecessors == *The “Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the Beaverdam” w..."

JElberfeld: Created page with "NOTOC West Berne Reformed Church around 1930 ==Predecessors == *The “Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the Beaverdam” w..."