Bay County past and present . Churches: Afterthe religious services Wenonah Hotel. 164 BAY COUNTY, PAST AND Y. M. C. A. Building. held in pioneer days by James G. Birney, churches of many denomina-tions were established one after another. Meetings would be held inBirney Hall, in the school house, or in the church building of someother denomination. The church services would be irregular, but theSunday schools, directed often by a group of the ladies, held sessionssomewhere every Sunday. As the church organization grew stronger,arrangements were made for a church building. The first c
Bay County past and present . Churches: Afterthe religious services Wenonah Hotel. 164 BAY COUNTY, PAST AND Y. M. C. A. Building. held in pioneer days by James G. Birney, churches of many denomina-tions were established one after another. Meetings would be held inBirney Hall, in the school house, or in the church building of someother denomination. The church services would be irregular, but theSunday schools, directed often by a group of the ladies, held sessionssomewhere every Sunday. As the church organization grew stronger,arrangements were made for a church building. The first churchbuilding erected for the purpose in the county, however, was not inthe villages, but was near the banks of the Kawkawlin river at theIndian Mission. This building was erected in 1847 under the directionof Reverend Brown, a Methodist missionary for the Indians in thatsection, (7) The first churches in Bay City were all built on Washing-ton street, between Second and Tenth streets. (8) This peculiar factis explained by a provision made by the original Saginaw Bay Com-pany in making its plat of Lower Saginaw.
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