No. 45 March 2005
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early churches in New Jersey
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Although the website was created to make available contemporary photographs, there are too many interesting churches that have disappeared—except on old albumen prints or in engravings made for pre-1900 books and magazines. We solicit such images from our readers and will reproduce at least one every month, along with such historical information as we can find about these vanished churches.
If you would like to see an image in your possession on this site, we are pleased to receive your own scans, or you may send us the photograph and we will create a high resolution scan and return the image to you with a copy of the scan and our thanks!First Brethren Church
Sergeantsville, Hunterdon County
This image is from a postcard, probably taken in the early 1900s. Notice the horse barns to the rear of the church (a feature which can still be seen in a half dozen churches in the state). The church has hardly changed (except for an addition to the rear) over the years. I have seen another taken within a few years of its construction in 1898, and it remains today essentially as it was then.
In 1898 the congregation split off from the old Dunkard, or German Baptist Church in East Amwell; fifty years earlier there was another schism in the Amwell congregation which resulted in the congregation at Sandbrook, which was known as the Moorite church. That congregation disappeared but the Sergeantsville and Amwell continue.
My thanks to Barry Caselli of Mullica Township (again) for this scan from a postcard in his collection.
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