United Methodist Church
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This handsome Romanesque structure was completed in 1897 for the Methodist Protestant Church of Columbiaville. Local Methodists, with the assistance of circuit riders, had organized the church some forty years earlier. In 1865 the congregation erected a parsonage. They held church services there until 1880, when their first church was built.
That early church was struck by lightning and burned in 1896. The following year, this red brick church was completed on the same site at a cost of three thousand dollars. It has also been used for school graduation and baccalaureate ceremonies and other community gatherings.
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