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ARC-10 DUG · CHAPMAN, HOWARD, AND THE DENOMINATION'S HISTORY
Read as buildings rather than congregations, Walkerton's churches form the town's most completely dated building series — eight walls across 133 years, every one of them placed by a record this wave read. 1859: the Methodist Episcopal church, the township's first church building, raised under the Rev. J. E. Newhouse's pastorate in the years when the congregation still answered to the West York Mission name (the denomination's history dates the Methodist work itself to 1844, twelve years before the plat — society first, building fifteen years after). 1870: the Baptist church — destined to house the Presbyterians from 1876 when its own congregation faded from the roll. 1876: the Roman Catholic church building, St. Patrick's predecessor in the Tyler Street parish ground the next article takes up. 1904, the great year, twice: the Presbyterian edifice, dedicated June 12, 1904, of cement stone or pressed brick (Howard's pair), and the United Brethren church at the corner of Michigan and Van Buren Streets, dedicated the same year by its denomination's record. 1923: the Methodist church's new building, in the last decade of the separate Methodist and Brethren courses. 1970: the present Walkerton United Methodist Church building, completed and dedicated two years after the national merger and four after the local congregations joined their organizations (June 1, 1966) — a merged church in a new wall. 1992: the educational building and Fellowship Hall added to it. The survey's discipline note closes it: the Georgia Street address pair the audit carried (DF-W-64) does not appear in the congregation's published chronology as extracted, and it stands in the run note as a delta with this same volume — the full Walkerton entry at pages 113–114 of the denomination's history — named as the settler.
Principal sources: Chapman (1880), p. 734 (1859, 1870, 1876); Howard (1907), pp. 317–318 (the 1904 dedications and the pair of materials); A History of the United Methodist Church of Indiana (2019), Walkerton entry (1844, 1904 Brethren, 1923, 1966, 1970, 1992).