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Photographer: John K. Robinson
Taken: June 30, 2008
Caption: Heckton Church
Additional Description: Heckton Church was built in 1885 on land donated by the Henrietta P. McAllister, widow of a grandson of the builder of the Mansion. Heckton Methodist Church was damaged by fire in 1927, the interior reflects some alterations from that time. In 2003 the church had been without a congregation for two years when the Conference Board of Trustees of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church agreed to donate it to Fort Hunter Park of the County of Dauphin. The church stood in the flood plain of the Susquehanna River near the mouth of Fishing Creek for over one hundred years. In that time, floods had damaged it significantly several times. In 2009 Fort Hunter moved the church to the southern end of the park to protect it from further flooding. -- Ft. Hunter Park website
Submitted: August 12, 2014, by John K. Robinson of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p282295
File Size: 1.080 Megabytes

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