Our History

1888 - New Beginnings

  "Ves" Estes envisioned a future that needed a thriving community church and the site sold to the trustees was perfect. A solid piece of level ground. The town around the location had five houses, a combination store, a post office and a blacksmith shop (where the fire station is now). The railroad promised great growth and Mt Comfort Rd (known as Highway Street) was becoming a well traveled pike of buggies, wagons, carts, and mounted riders. The town grew with a new grain elevator, a canning factory, a tile works and later a school, a fire station, a bank, an industrial plant, a telephone exchange and a growing number of homes.   . 

Trustees William Eastes, James Collins and Hamilton Welling hired a local farmer named James Murphy to build the one room rectangular frame church.  People hitched their horses to the racks around the church and entered the building from the west side. Once inside the seats were divided down the middle aisle and you could sit on either side. The east side of the building was a raised platform for which sat the pulpit.  On the right of the platform were chairs for the choir. The pulpit was in the center. The primary source of light was the eight high arched windows that flanked the room, four along the north wall and an equal number along the south. Added light came from oil lamps that hung from the ceiling.  In the winter, the building was heated by two coal or wood stoves located on each side about halfway to the front.

The building was completed and dedicated in November 1888 by Reverend C.W. Wade to a total membership of 72 people.  

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