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Duanesburg Reformed Presbyterian Church
Photographer: Collection of Norman Collins
Taken: Circa 1948
Caption: Duanesburg Reformed Presbyterian Church
Additional Description: The Reformed Presbyterian church on Duanesburg Churches Road was built on land donated by James Duane. The congregation was organized in 1795. Pictured is the second church building. The first was constructed in 1807, and burned in 1836. This church, noted in the historic marker, was built in 1836-37 and burned in December of 1951. The church's Sunday school, started in 1833 to teach English to the adult German immigrants, is the oldest continuing Sunday school in the country.
Submitted: April 2, 2011, by Howard C. Ohlhous of Duanesburg, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p148872
File Size: 4.799 Megabytes

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