Once
called Pine Grove United Presbyterian Church and First United
Presbyterian Church of Grove City.
The Pine Grove United Presbyterian Church
was organized in 1879; the first service being held in on the second
floor of the Pine Grove School House on Center Street on April 6,
1879. Over the next several months, services were held in various
places: an additional service at the school house, along Wolf
Creek near where the Pine Grove Hotel now stands, and at an unoccupied
Presbyterian Meeting House near the corner of Broad and Poplar
Streets. It was in the meeting house that the Pine Grove United
Presbyterian Church was formally instituted on September 10, 1879.
Charter members of the church
included: Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Craig, Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Craig, Mattie Cummings, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Cummings, Mr. and
Mrs. W. M. Frew, Margaret M. Kelly, Margaret Mc Bride, Eliza McFate, Mr.
and Mrs. A. B. McKay, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. McKay, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
McKee, Jennie Miller, Mr.
and Mrs. G. W. White, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. White, Marie White, Narcissa
White, and Susanna White.
In 1883, when Pine Grove was renamed
Grove City, the church officially became the First United Presbyterian
Church of Grove City.
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