Beginning about 1830, immigrants from Alsace and Germany, perhaps attracted by the countryside's promising farm land, found their way to Eden and began to settle in the eastern part of town. One of the churches they built, located on the corner of N. Boston Rd. and Sisson Highway, was the St. Paul's Lutheran Church, and constructed about 1879 is shown above with the parsonage. This picture, taken about 1915,is another taken from the Sutter Glass Negative collection. There are many decendants of the founders of this church still living in Eden, for instance the Agles, Henrys, Eckhardts, Bleys, Bauers, Kromers and Zittels, just tomention a few.
(From the Town Historian's Office, especially from the 125th Anniversary Booklet of St. Paul's Lutheran Church.)
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