Tag: First United Methodist Church Mishawaka Indiana
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Around the Block: Mishawaka, Indiana
Located in St. Joseph’s County, “the Princess City” is to the east of South Bend in north central Indiana, near the border with Michigan. Legend has it that Mishawaka gets its name from the daughter of Shawnee chief Elkhart. The discovery of bog iron deposits attracted settlers in the early 1830s, which founded the town…
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First United Methodist Church, Mishawaka, Indiana
A group of eight persons met for the first time in a home on July 19, 1835. By a year later, the size of the Methodist Episcopal society had outgrown a home setting. The building of a meeting house on a lot donated by one of the society’s members began in September of 1936. The…