Early Churches of Tippecanoe County Indiana
| Members of the Tippecanoe
County Area area Genealogy Society are working on this list of early
churches of Tippecanoe County. We hope to add photographs
of each one. If you or someone you know has a photograph of any
Church below we would love to post it. This database is an
effort to help others find genealogy resources in your search to find
family information and preserve the history. Please remember this
information came mainly from early history books of the past. The
beginning of many churches started in building of other denominations.
The main tables were created from TIPCOA members Susan Y. Clawson and
Joyce Watterson. Many photographs came from myself or Kathy
& Keith Hiser, who enjoyed their trip around Tippecanoe County
finding what was left of the buildings. Thanks ladies and Keith,
we really appreciate your time and effort on this project. We would love help, connecting any additional information or webpage's. I can link them to help us all learn the past history. Already many links have gone bad. Please share new ones at E-mail: TIPCOA CHURCH INFO |
Fairfield, Jackson, Lauramie, Perry, Randolph, Sheffield, Shelby, Tippecanoe, Union, Wabash, Washington, & Wea..
Wayne township
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Denomination |
Church name |
Origin date |
Founder |
Buildings |
Significant events / cemeteries |
Address & possible |
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Methodist Episcopal |
1837; on Monroe St in West Point (1866 map and 1878 Atlas); OR 1826 (“West Point UMC”) |
first sermon by Rev. John Emmett |
1837 first building erected in township at West Point; used by other denominations, including Rev. Carnahan of the Presbyterian Church; new building 1907; only church in township in 1909 (DeHart); Rev. George W. Switzer, presiding elder |
When school burned in 1937 HS classes held in ME church and a house |
West Point United Methodist |
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Baptist |
origin after 1837 (BR) |
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building erected several years after 1837 (BR); closed; in 1966 new org. sponsor by Creasy Lane Baptist Church; building 1968 |
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West Point Baptist Church, Washington St |
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Christian |
West Point Christian Need photo |
in West Point on Mulberry St |
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closed? |
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Presbyterian |
Glen Hall Presbyterian Church Need photo |
North of West Point (1878) |
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Road sign is all that is left. to this small community |
Daniel W. Cooper minister here and at Romney (Herald) |
Closed; Records might be at Presbyterian Historical Society 425 Lombard St. |
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United Brethren |
Pin Hook United Brethren Church Need photo |
South of West Point, in Sec 31 (1878), CR 800 S at 700 W |
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begun about 1837; area of Clarksburg, town now abandoned; in Wayne and Jackson townships. (Pin Hook articles) |
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closed |
Bibliography use for Wayne township Churches
1866 map of West Point. 1866 Wall Map;
reproduced in West Point Memory Book. Mildred Poisel Hanselman. [1998].
1878 Atlas of Tippecanoe County,
Indiana. Knightstown, Ind.: Kingman Bros, 1878.
Biographical History of Tippecanoe,
White, Jasper, Newton, Benton, Warren and Pulaski Counties, Indiana. [BH].
Chicago: Lewis. 1899. 2 vols.
Biographical Record and Portrait Album
of Tippecanoe County, Indiana. [BR] Chicago: Lewis, 1888.
DeHart, Richard P. Past and Present of
Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Indianapolis: Bowen, 1909. 2 vols.
Herald and Presbyter (church
journal), 22 Dec 1920, Deaths, obit of Daniel W. Cooper (1830–20).
Pin Hook Church articles. Jackson
Township, Tippecanoe County Book, AKA Jackson Township High School, by
Mildred Poisel Hanselman. [1998].
“West Point UMC.” Heritage
of Faith. Lafayette Journal and Courier clipping not dated. Tippecanoe
County Public Library vertical file.
Another area you will find help are the cemeteries that were connected. This list is also by township.
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