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 FIRST
METHODIST CHURCH - FARRELL, 1902-1959
The
city of Farrell was first known
as South Sharon. A city that grew from farmlands, swamps and woodland in
1900 to a thriving city of 10,000 people in 1902 when a large steel works
costing five million dollars located in that area. Later the city was
renamed Farrell in honor of James A. Farrell the president of the United
States Steel Corporation.
The
First Methodist Church of Farrell had its beginning when two local
preachers, J. S. Frantz and E. W.
Springer, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, organized and conducted a Sunday School in a little Red School
House located at the northeast corner of Spearman Avenue and Roemer
Boulevard.
The
healthy growth of the Sunday School encouraged Mr. Frantz and
Mr. Springer
to hold preaching services in connection with the Sunday School. This they
did until the church was organized.
The
Erie Annual Conference in session at Oil City September 10-15, 1902,
commissioned Rev. D. C. Plannette to organize the new
congregation
in South
Sharon.
The organization ceremony was held on Sunday
afternoon October 12, 1902, in Odd Fellow’s Hall,
807 Broadway.
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First
Methodist Church, Farrell. Photographed in 1959.
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