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Pioneer Lutherans

Fairfield County · 9465 Cincinnati-Zanesville Road Southwest (US 22), Amanda, OH, 43102 -- Israel Evangelical Lutheran Church, across from the Dutch Hollow Cemetery

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Side A: The Israel Evangelical Lutheran Church was organized August 23, 1812. According to available records, in 1813 the first meeting in Ohio of the “Special Conferences” called by the Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania was held at the church. Pioneer Lutheran pastors, the Reverends Heineke, Henkle, Huet, and Jacob Leist, met to further organize the Christian Witness on the Ohio frontier. Side B: Same

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