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The Union Church of 1875, the Turkey Creek Society, and the Township's Church Names

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1875 – · township class

In 1875 the citizens of the township's northeast built a church for everybody: "regardless of sect," Chapman writes, they "erected a union church house in 1875. It is a good frame building." Howard carries the same: "In 1875, a Union church was erected in the northeast part of the township where different denominations hold services." The federal place-name record carries a Union Church at 41.55699, −86.22445 — a place-name row only; the congregation's course after 1907 is carried by nothing read, and banks as a gap. Chapman carries one more township society whose name this history could not recover: "Another society was also organized a few years ago, on the Turkey creek road, at Annis' school-house. It, too, is prospering well" — its denominational heading falls in the split between the transcription's parts and was not recovered; the settler is the Archive.org page image at the Chapman pp. 952–953 boundary. (The schools leg carries Annis' school-house as a district school-house on the same passage.)School), Tabor Church (41.53477, −86.34945), and Saint Johns Church (41.50699, −86.34834). The rows establish place-names only; the congregations bank as a named gap for a later leg, if assigned.

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Source: The Union Church of 1875, the Turkey Creek Society, and the Township's Church Names, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/religion/union-church-of-1875-the-turkey-creek-society-and/