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Photographer: Anton Schwarzmueller
Taken: May 8, 2015
Caption: Transit Road Church Display
Additional Description: Inside the museum. It reads: Transit Road Church. This church was originally located at Transit Road, near whatis now Transit Valley Country Club. German-speaking residents living in the East Amherst and Clarence area built it in 1854.

As the congregation grew on the 1960s, a new church was built farther down on Transit Road. This building was then donated to the Museum. It was moved to the Museum's current site via Transit Road.

To prepare this building to move, workers removed the steeple and secured the stained glass windows by enclosing them with plywood. Even with the steeple removed the building was to high to fit under utility lines. Electric lines were dropped ot lifted up over the church's roof.
Submitted: May 18, 2015, by Anton Schwarzmueller of Wilson, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p308411
File Size: 3.480 Megabytes

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