EAGLE ARCHIVE: From the rails to the pews, new churches are big deal in Carroll County
Posted 7/18/10 by Carroll Eagle
"This afternoon at one o'clock, the corner-stone of the new Methodist Episcopal Church, about to be erected at New Windsor, will be laid with Masonic ceremonies, by Door to Virtue Lodge, of this city.
"The members of the lodge will meet at Masonic Hall, in the Wantz Building, at 11:45 this morning, and leave for New Windsor on the 11:53 train."
A week later, on July 10, 1897, the Sentinel carried a front-page story about the fruits of that train journey -- the laying-of-the-cornerstone ceremony for the new church for St. Paul's United Methodist Church in New Windsor...
http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/07/eagle-archive-from-rails-to-pews-new.html
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