Deer Creek Methodist Church

	French Creek Township
	*Deer Creek Methodist Church*
-----	In the spring of 1842, a Methodist Episcopal Church was built on the farm, one-and-a-half miles south-west of Milledgeville. There had been preaching in the neighborhood for several years previous, in different dwelling-houses, by Revs. Hiram Luce and A. G. Miller, and at the time of the building, the church contained about sixteen members. The house was twenty-six feet long by twenty-four wide, and was subsequently enlarged, and lasted until 1869, when the present building, which is somewhat larger, and surmounted by a plain belfry and bell, took its place. It goes by the name of the Deer Creek Church, and was built by G. W. Clure and J. S. Williams; its present [1877] membership is about eighty.	--	A Sabbath-school was started in connection with it [Deer Creek Methodist Episcopal Church] (in 1842), and has been continued without intermission, excepting during a few winters at the first start, when it was thought by the early settlers to be impossible to keep an institution of that kind for more than eight months in the year, and, the words of one of the old members, “it froze up on the 1st of December or before.” A library was commenced in its early years, and at one time had grown to 300 volumes, but it has since declined. The History of Mercer County, 1877, page 40. Return to the main Deer Creek Methodist Church page