Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley . ontributions. In this document allusionis made to the fact that hitherto divine and religiousservices had been held with great inconvenience inprivate houses. From the help thus received, the con-gregation was enabled the following year, 1769, to erectits first house of worship in Lebanon. It stood on thesouthwest corner of the present graveyard, facing Wil-low street. It was a log structure which served well itspurpose for thirty years, until the present massivechurch edifice displaced its use in 1798. Among therelics of this first buildi
Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley . ontributions. In this document allusionis made to the fact that hitherto divine and religiousservices had been held with great inconvenience inprivate houses. From the help thus received, the con-gregation was enabled the following year, 1769, to erectits first house of worship in Lebanon. It stood on thesouthwest corner of the present graveyard, facing Wil-low street. It was a log structure which served well itspurpose for thirty years, until the present massivechurch edifice displaced its use in 1798. Among therelics of this first building are still found the timbers inwhat is now Oswego House on Cumberland street ;an iron rooster which graced the old steeple, now in thepossession of Mr. Geo. H. Reinoehl, and several pewtercommunion services are kept at the parsonage. The18 266 LANDMARKS IN THE LEBANON VALLEY. writer had the pleasure of seeing these recently, to-gether with an altar-cloth of fine linen, bearing an earlydate (1773), and found the tankards beautifully en-graved thus :. The bread or hostien-plate bears the monogramI. CH. which, we presume, stands for lesusChristus. The bell, also used on this building, stillswings in the present steeple. While the earliest records of even this church arelost, there is at hand a Church Book of records begunby the pastor, Rev. F. A. Con. Muhlenberg, in this date entries of official acts are faithfullymade and historical data are well preserved. This pro-tocol preserves the facts of importance concerning thebuilding of the present edifice. According to it, thecorner-stone was laid June 8th, 1796, when Shultze, of Tulpehocken, preached in theforenoon, Rev. Hendel, of the Reformed church, Tul- SALEM CHURCH AND GRAVEYARD. 267 pehocken, in the afternoon, and the Rev. Schlegel(probably Moravian) in the evening. The names of tliechurch officers then were as follows : Pastor—^Qv. George Lochman, A. M. Tmstees —Michael Rieder, Philip Fernsler, Jac
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