"Eden Corners" Church

About 1866 a few families of "Eden Corners" who were either German Immigrants or of German descent to it upon themselves to build a church at what is now Main and Hemlock Streets. Shown is the church as it looked in 1910 and as it looked remodeled in 1952. It is now the Faith Baptist Church. The early record books list the following names: Phillipi, Baldauf, Enke, Lepp, Nagel, Duerr, Jager and Lang. Indications were that these people had been going to the church in Hamburg, which was St. James Evangelical Church, then called St. Jacobs, and a few were going to St.John's in East Eden. (The East Eden Church was always called the mother church of the one at "Eden Corners" and St. James in Hamburg.) Under a constitution, the Church in Eden was the first called German United Evangelical Protestant Church. Later, in 1923, it was changed to St. John's Evangelical Church, and still later merged with the Reformed Church. (Continued next week)

(Information courtesy of the Town of Eden Historian and Centennial History of St.John's Church.)