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Ringoes Lecture Hall
Ringoes, East Amwell Township, Hunterdon County

A portion of the Amwell Presbyterian congregation residing in Ringoes attempted on several occasions to get a new church erected in their town, about a mile away from the Larison's Corner location where the old (present) church stands. They were rebuffed, but about 1848-1850 they built this wood frame lecture hall as a convenient place to meet and to hold Sunday School classes. In 1866 the group split off from the Amwell church to organize the Ringoes Kirkpatrick Memorial Presbyterian church, and used this hall for services until their new Gothic building was erected next door, two years later. The building is now used as a Sunday School.

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