First Congregational Church
by Holden The Moment
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First Congregational Church
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Holden The Moment
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Photograph - Digital Photography
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Photograph taken on 4/1/2015
On December 6, 1796, the Christian people in the various settlements banded themselves together in a Church under a simple but comprehensive confession of faith and covenant." So runs an account in the handwriting of Rufus Putnam concerning the first organized church in Marietta and now the oldest continuous worshipping fellowship west of the Alleghenies began. Putnam arrived at the mouth of the Muskingum River on 7 April 1788, with a company of men to found a settlement and survey and allocate the land.� Soon named Marietta, the settlement was the first organized one in the Northwest Territory.
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