Fayetteville's Earliest Methodist Church

Fayettevilles’ earliest

Methodist Church

Stood on this site

1840 – 1899

The Methodist Episcopal Church in Fayetteville was organized in 1832. The modest frame building of 1840, destroyed by fire during the Civil War, was replaced by a brick structure in 1868 as the ...

Site of the S.R. Bowen Buildings

1920-1989

Three industrial buildings were located at 1980 Lake Street and were operated by Samuel R. Bowen and his partner, Sisti Siracusa, as the S.R. Bowen Company and the Bowen Fishing Tool Company. The S.R. Bowen Company was founded in 1920 ...

St. Mary's Catholic Church Bell

Linwood, Nebraska

Inscribed on the Bell:

Henry Stuckstede B F Co.

St. Louis, Mo.

St John Baptist

Linwood, Nebr

1901

Weight: 1,450 lbs.

Father Francis Zalud of Abie, Nebraska, arranged for the organization of a new daughter parish, that of St. Mary's in nearby Linwood, Nebraska, and the ...

Bellevue Plantation

Dating from a royal grant by King George III to Samuel Eastlake in 1767, Belleview Plantation has been owned continuously by the Carswell family since 1835. The year in which the house was built is not known but it is ...

Sacred Heart Catholic Church Bell

Cornlea, Nebraska

Inscribed on the Bell:

Cast by Stuckstede & Bro.

St. Louis, Mo

1908

A.D. MCMY-111 - Pius - Pro

[Probably MCMVIII for 1908]

Ecclesia S.S. Cordis

Cornlea, Nebr.

Weight: 1,000 lbs.

The dedication of the Sacred Heart Church, Cornlea, Nebraska was November 4, 1908. The church bell was ...

St. Michael's Catholic Church Bell

Tarnov, Nebraska

Inscribed on the Bell:

The Hy. Stuckstede B. F. Co.

St. Louis, Mo 1893

Darowall Kosciolowi

S W Michala Tarnowie Nebr

Joseph Paprocki J. Sofia

Zona Jeco

Weight: 295 lbs.

In the early 1870's with much unrest in Poland, Francis Paprocki, a blacksmith, left his homeland in ...

United Methodist Church Bell

Surprise, Nebraska

Inscribed on the Bell:

Buckeye Bell Foundry

1898

Weight: 550lbs.

The first record of Methodist religious work in the Surprise area dates back to 1871 when C. W. Comstock was pastor of the Seward Circuit. This charge consisted of the north half of ...

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Bell

Inscribed on the Bell:

Buckeye Bell Foundry

1912

The E. W. VanDuzen Co.

Cincinnati

Weight: 710 lbs.

The church building was built by the Congregational Society in 1866-1867. It was located on 22nd Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets in Columbus. The building was constructed from ...

Congregational Church Bell

Linwood, Nebraska

Inscribed on the Bell:

Mc Shane Bell Foundry

Henry McShane & Co.

Baltimore, Md

Weight: 795 lbs.

The records for the bell and the church were destroyed in a flood. The bronze bell carried no date. The church closed in the early 1970's.

Marker is ...

St. Bernard Catholic Church Bell

St. Bernard Township, Nebraska

Inscribed on the Bell:

Meneely & Kimberly,

Founders,

Troy, N.Y.

1878

Weight: 710 lbs.

About 1873-1874 a few Catholic families began to settle in the vicinity of the present St. Bernard. Thus, we find John Dieter, John Melcher, Mathias Classen, Joseph Steibly, and ...