First United Methodist Church

First United Methodist Church is a Michigan historical marker in Mt Morris, Genesee County, dedicated 1988.

Genesee County · dedicated 1988 · 808 Genesee Street, Mt Morris

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First United Methodist Church, one of the oldest congregations in Genesee County, began with services held in Lewis Buckingham’s home in 1836. The Reverend Luther D. Whitney, a Flint circuit rider, and nine other people organized the congregation in 1838. Their first church, built in 1850, was moved to Genesee Street in 1865-66. The Reverend Seth Reed, a patriarch of Michigan Methodism, dedicated the congregation’s present Gothic Revival church on January 31, 1886.

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