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The Milltown Historical Society will be open for visitors on March 5 between 11 am and 1 pm.This Saturday Open House will begin a series of regularly scheduled openings each first Saturday of the month.Come visit us if you have never been to the museum, or want to see how our collection has grown.Fans of Milltown history will enjoy visiting our blog site, https://milltownhistoricalsociety.com/, featuring "This Day in Milltown History" articlesNew members are always welcome to join us!Continue
Started by Barbara E Wright Feb 18.
St Paul's Church congregation began when a small group of Milltown residents began borrowing the Methodist Church to hold their own services around 1860. This group was pastorless, but relied on the services of Reverend C. Bank of The Reformed Church of New Brunswick.
They built a wooden framed building in 1873 that they named St. Paul's Church, and united their group with the German Reformed Church of the United States. The first pastor, hired in 1875, was Reverend G.B. Shick. The original wooden church stood until 1956, and was moved off of Main St and onto Lakewood to as Fellowship Hall when the current stone church was built in 1923. From Gary Conger, "Our granddaughters are 6th generation members of St. Paul’s Church. My grandparents Marie and Willard Garretson were the first couple married in the new (current)…
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