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Last Stop U.S.A.

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New York, Rockland County, Piermont
Last Stop U.S.A.
During World War Two, 40,000 U.S. troops per month, including many Piermont residents, passed this spot enroute to the end of Piermont Pier, the largest port of embarkation on the East Coast, where ships were waiting to transport them to military duty in war-torn Europe. Many of these troops landed on the shores of France where the invasion began on June 6, 1944. Thus this area came to be known as “Last Stop U.S.A.”
After the war came to a victorious conclusio, some 533,869 men returned home to the U.S.A. first setting foot on their homeland at the end of that same Piermont Pier.

“Lest We Forget,” many of the men who embarked from Piermont never returned.

This plaque is dedicated to the honor of those who served and the sacred memory of those who never returned.

Dedicated 1994

(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

United States Colored Troops

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Tennessee, Hamilton County, Chattanooga

Initially fearful of allowing black troops in battle, the Union army employed them as laborers, construction workers and guards. U.S.C.T. regiments supervised black women and children crowded not disease-ridden camps outside Tennessee cities. They garrisoned forts and built fortifications in Tennessee, north Alabama and north Georgia, and guarded prisoners of war. The U.S.C.T. guarded railroads from guerrilla raids; this duty in fact, introduced Tennessee black troops to combat.

Nearly 24,000 men of color served in the Union army stationed in Tennessee and suffered almost 4,500 casualties. They persisted against ideas of inferiority professed by Southerners as well as some white Union commanders. Black troops feared mistreatment, or even death, if captured and proved to themselves and their white commanders that they were fighters. Their role in Tennessee during the Civil War should be recognized as indispensable.

(African Americans • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Roll of Honor

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New York, Rockland County, Piermont
1941   Roll of Honor   1945
Robert Gair Company, Inc.
Dedicated To
The Following Employees Who Entered The Armed Forces
Of Our Country In World War II Leon Aamold • James R. Ainsworth • Charles Albanese • Victor Alfieri • Donald A. Argenti • Frank Armano • Harold Aubut • Joseph F. Aull • Arthur Babcock • Edward Bach • John J. Bach • Sidney Backus • Andrew Bandura • Kenneth A. Barnett • Rocco Barone • Stephen Bazala, Jr. • Stephen Belle • Edward Beneke • Frank F. Benicasa • Nicholas J. Berardi • Lionel Bernier • Kenneth Blackwell • Walter C. Blauvelt • Merenus J. Bogart • Bradford Bohr • Dominic Bologna • Thomas A. Boyan, Jr. • Frederick G. Bracey • Carl Brooks • George Brooks • Robert Brooks • Walter B. Brooks • James E. Brower • Robert Brown • Samuel Brown • Walter E. Brown • William J. Brown, Jr. • George Brugger, Jr. • George M. Buhler • * John B. Bryne • Edward H. Brynes • John Cable • Ira Campbell • Louis Campoli • Albert Capobianco • Ernest Capobianco • Anthony Caputo • John Caputo • Jessie Carden • Henry Carlson • Thomas Casey • Angelo Cassetta • John F. Challacombe • Raymond Chalmers • Alfred Chambers, Jr. • Michael Chanski • Francis R. Clark • John J. Clark • Valero Collazuol • Carlo Conti • Richard J. Copeland • Warren F. Courtwright • George A. Cozart • William Cozart • George Craft • Tony Culletto • Edward Daube • Bruno Dauksza • Matthew d’Auria • Howard W. Deakin • Charles DeCarlo • John DeCarlo • Mario A. DeJoia • Dominick DeLaura • Nicholas DeLaura • Alfred DeLena • Nicholas J. DeLena • Nick Dellolio • * Vincent DeLongis • Vincent DeLongis • Frank DeLorenzo • Philip DeLorenzo • Ralph DeLorenzo • Andrew DelRegno • Bernard V. DeMaggio • Coneo De Maio • Anthony J. DeSevo • John DeSevo • Fernando DiMaggio, Jr. • Michael J. Donnellan • Richard Dorion • Andrew Drab • Edward Dupree • George Dwyer, Jr. • William T. Ebner • J.W. Emerizy • William Engel • Paul Etzel • Marcellus P. Fabbri • Angelo Fasano • Vincent L. Fasula • Joseph Fofol, Jr. • John Fojtlin • Joseph Fojtlin • Joseph Forman • Arthur G. Fox • Joseph Fraser • Bruno Frustaci • Francis A. Furey • * John Galgano • Angelo Gallo • Frank Garti • Emil J. Gatti • Milton Gerdenier • Vincent Giacobbe • Irvin J. Gibbs • Otto J. Giese • John J. Gleason • Joseph G. Glover • Henry Goodson • Harold D. Goswick • Edward Gozza • Stephen Grznar • Joseph Guerra • Tom Gurrere • Charles R. Habershan • Leif Halvorsen • Courtney Hammond • John A. Hanchar • George Hancock, Jr. • Robert Handley • Frederick Hansen • Howard Hansen • William S. Hardy • * Bernard Haring • Henry Harris • Lonnie Harris, Jr. • Carl Harshner • Rudolph Hazugha • Vincent Heiser • Paul Hess • Warren A. Hicks • Bertram Hockin • Charles Hoffman • James A. Hoffman • * Dennis L. Hogan, Jr. • George Hogan • John L. Hogan • Paul K. Hogan • Stanley Hoppen • Robert M. Jackson • Joseph T. Johnston • William F. Jones • James M. Kalbach, Jr. • James Keegan • John J. Kihm • Frank Kline • William Kneale • Charles Koerner • Leo Komonchak • Andrew S. Kopac • John Anthony Koza • John James Koza • John Joseph Koza • Stephen A. Koza • William Koza • Donald Krawchuk • Richard Kurisko • John F. Lago • Alfino Lanzana • * George H. Lawrence, Jr. • George W. Lawrence • Bobby J. Lee • John A. Liska • Arthur Lissi • John R. Lombardi • Leonard Lombardo • Louis P. Longieri • Edward Lynch • Robert Macbeth • George Mader • Richard Mai • Michael Maiorao • Joseph J. Malatinsky • Anthony Maresca • Burdette Maroney • Joseph Marshall • Charles E. Mattz • George Matrafailo • Anthony Mayzun • Joseph F. Mayzun • Michael J. McCarthy • Peter A. McCormack • William G. McDade • George W. McDonald • James A. McDonald • John T. McFarlane • John McGuinness • Donald T. McKernan • Hugh S. McKernen • Raymond S. McManus • * John Melnick • Howard Messner • Fred Meyers • John Micklas • George Micklos • Steve Micklos • Robert F. Miller • John W. Montesano • Joseph Montesano • Philip V. Montesano • * Alphonse Morreale • Anthony Morreale • John Mullen • Peter J. Murphy • Goncetta M. Musumaci • Stephen Nedelka • Charles W. Nellis, Jr. • Albert J. Nelsen • Gordon F. Nolan • Ermanno Pagliaroli • John Pagnozzi • Joseph J. Pagnozzi • Louis Palkovic • James Panarotti • Rico Paone • Charles Parietti • Albert Parnell • Eugene C. Parsells • Allan H. Perley • Donald Persing • Joseph A. Pesanelli • Martin A. Petersen • Raymond Peterson • Robert E. Pierce • Anthony Piesco • Armond Pietrantonio • Nicholas Pietrantonio • Alfred Piroso • Brewster Porcella • Stanley Porter • Russell Post • Arthur Quinn • Matthew Radena • Steve Radena, Jr. • Joseph F. Ready • Egnac M. Rechtorovic • William F. Reilly • John Reinerson • George Reutershan • Donald E. Richardson • Hilbert A. Riker • Cecil Rion • Fred Risch • Robert Rivers • Irven F. Rose • Philmore Royster • Thomas Rudden • John J. Rueckert • Leslie Ryan • Rupert Sandberg • Jeremiah Savoia • John S. Savoia • Michael E. Savoia • * Peter J. Sbordone • James Schnaars • Robert Schnaars • Arthur B. Schultz • John Schultzel • Charles H. Schumacher, Jr. • Joseph Scibran • Thomas F. Sedlack, Jr. • John C. Seebach • Walter E. Shea • Donald Sherwood • Frederick Schettig • John Shields • Thomas Shortail • Harry Sisco, Jr. • Richard W. Smith • Warren Smith Jr. • James Solt • Rosario D. Sommella • Alphonse Somma • Salvatore Sorriento • William Sorriento • Charles Spears • Gerard Stalter • Edmund Stander • Bernard A. Stanley • Robert I. Stebbins • Gregory W. Steele • Joseph L. Stein • David Steiner • * Emanuel Steiner • Richard Sterns • Harold L. Stoll • Albert Strickle • Roy H. Stuart • Clarence Suydam • Peter Suydam • James H. Swain • Albert A. Swann • Everett Swann • Lawrence Tallman • Harry G. Tasman • William J. Tate • Carl Taulman • Herbert P. Thompson • Leo Todesco • Frank Toomey, Jr. • Clarence M. Travis, Jr. • Fred Tudesco • John J. Tyndall • Joseph P. Tyndall • Paul Valerio • Frank J. Van Cura • Joseph Ventriglia • Fred Viola • Frank Vogler • Richard H. Voisey • Charles Von Sternstein • Theodore E. Weber • Alfred C. Wein • * Edmund E. Whalen • Walter Wilkins • * Moses Yadanza • Peter Yaniga • Dominic Yannazone • Ernest A. Zenobia • Enrico Zoccoli
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Valor • Atlantic • Tunisia • Sicily • Italy • Normandy • Belgium • Germany • France
(right column)
Pax • Pacific • Guadalcanal • New Gunea • China-Burma • Philippines • Iwo-Jima • Okinawa • Japan

(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Camp Shanks

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New York, Rockland County, Tappan
Camp Shanks
This Memorial Erected In Memory
Of The Millions Of Men And Women
Who Passed Through This Port Of
Embarkation, The Last Stop U.S.A.
January 1943   -   July 1946

A.D. 1967
To Honor The Camp Shanks Memorial Committee
John D. Lawrence Placa, Chairmen

(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 17 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Erected to the Memory of Simon Snyder

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Pennsylvania, Snyder County, Selinsgrove
Simon Snyder
Born November 5, A.D. 1769
Died November 9, A.D. 1819
1789 Member of the
Constitutional Convention
1797-1808, Member of the House of
Representatives of Pennsylvania
1802-1808, Speaker of the House of
Representatives of Pennsylvania
1808-1817, Governor of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
1818, Member of the
Senate of Pennsylvania

(Politics) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Temple of Domitian

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Turkey, Izmir Province, Selçuk (district), near Selçuk
English:
The temple and altar served the Imperial cult and were dedicated to Emperor Domitian (A.D. 81-96); after his death and condemnation of his memory ( damnatio memoriae), however, they were dedicated to the Flavian family. The temple, with its 8 x 13 columns constructed upon a six- stepped substructure (24 x 34 m), was erected on a terrace supported by mighty buttresses. After the victory of Christianity it was torn down to its foundations and today it has almost completely disappeared.

Turkish:
İmparator kültüne hizmet eden tapınak ve sunak aslen imparator Domitianus'a (İ.S. 81-96) adanmış, ancak imparatorun ölümünden ve anısının lanetlenmesinden sonra (danınatıo memoriae) Flaviuslar ailesine devredilmiştir. Altı basamaklı bir altyapının (24 x 34 m) üzerinde yükselen 8 x 13'Iük sütunlu tapınak, güçlü destek yapıları ile oluşturulmuş bir teras uzerine inşa edilmiştir. Hıristiyanlığın zaferiyle bina temel taşlarına kadar sökülmüş ve günümüzde neredeyse tamamıyla yok olmuştur.

German: To read the German text, click on the marker image to enlarge it.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ranching and Mining

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California, San Bernardino County, Nipton
Gold and silver discoveries during the mid-1800s brought hundreds of prospectors trekking across the eastern Mojave. Ephemeral camps sprang up throughout the desert as miners discovered copper and silver in nearby mountains. Ranchers moving into high, grassy valleys, exploited the market for beef created by the miners, and soon diveloped commerical operations. The Sourthern Pacific Railway crossed the Mojave in 1883, giving ranchers access to larger markets east and west, and their operations expanded. Ranching and mining continue today.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 9 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Railroads Revolutionize Transportation

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California, San Bernardino County, Nipton
By the late 1800s, transcontinental railroads were uniting the nation. The Southern Pacific was the first to cross the Mojave Desert in 1883. Train routes provided economical transportation for raw materials like minerals and cattle to larger markets such as Los Angeles. Short lines developed, creating a web of routes serviing remote desert valleys.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 9 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sunbury

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Pennsylvania, Snyder County, Shamokin Dam
Laid out 1772 as the county seat of Northumberland on the site of Indian Shamokin by surveyor-General Lukens and William Maclay. Borough incorporated Mar. 24, 1797. Here Fort Augusta was built in 1756. Historic center of travel, trade and industry.

(Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Evangelical Church

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Pennsylvania, Union County, New Berlin
The first church built by "Albright's People," later the Evangelical Association, was erected in New Berlin in 1816. It was the first Evangelical Church in the United States. The site is marked by a monument.

(Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Evangelical Church

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Pennsylvania, Union County, Mifflinburg
The first church built by "Albright's People," later the Evangelical Association, was erected in New Berlin in 1816. It was the first Evangelical Church in the United States. The site is marked by a monument.

(Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fought's Mill

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Pennsylvania, Union County, Mifflinburg
The nearby mill is on the site of the earlier mill built in 1771. The original Fought's Mill was a settler's refuge against Indians in Revolutionary days. Here was held Nov. 3, 1776, Buffalo Valley's first election under the Constitution of 1775.

(Colonial Era • Industry & Commerce • Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Leroy Massacre

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Pennsylvania, Union County, Mifflinburg
Near here John Jacob Leroy was killed by Indians on Oct. 16, 1755, following the Penn's Creek Massacre. This was the first Indian hostility in the region after Braddock's defeat.

(Disasters • Native Americans • War, French and Indian) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

The Wilderness Road

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Kentucky, Laurel County, London
Opened Kentucky and the west to rapid settlement and major development. First wagon road built by Kentucky, 1796 Crab Orchard to Cumberland Gap. A principal highway, maintained as a turnpike “toll road” for 80 years.

(Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

"Albright's People"

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Pennsylvania, Union County, New Berlin
The first church edifice
of
"Albright;s People"
Later known as
"The Evangelical Association"
now,
The Evangelical Church
was erected on this plot, A.D. 1816
The total number of
Albright's Followers
was then, 1401
They now number 251704, A.D. 1927

(Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Congressmen Buried in London / Congressmen Buried in A.R. Dyche Memorial Park

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Kentucky, Laurel County, London

(Side One)
Congressmen Buried in London

Wm. H. Randall (1822-81), lawyer, co. clerk, judge, 8th dist. rep. in 38th and 39th Congresses, buried in family plot on East 1st Street. Vincent Boreing (1839-1903), newspaperman, 1st lt. Union army, school supt., 11th dist. rep. in 56th and 57th Congresses, buried in the A.R. Dyche Memorial Park. Over.

Presented by Laurel County Fiscal Court

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Congressmen Buried in A.R. Dyche Memorial Park

D.C. Edwards (1861-1938), lumber business, pres. The National Bank, London, 11th dist. rep., 59th-61st Congresses. Finley Hamilton (1885-1940), lawyer, WWI Signal Corps, elected at large to 73rd Congress. Wm Lewis (1868-1959), commonwealth’s atty., state rep., filled John Robsion’s unexpired term, 80th Congress, seated 1948.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Politics) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

United Methodist Sites in New Berlin

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Pennsylvania, Union County, New Berlin

1. Site of the first church building an first printing house of the Evangelical Association
Water and Plum Streets
These buildings were erected in 1816 as the first such structures in the entire denomination.

2. Second church building of the Evangelical Association in New Berlin
Market and Plum Streets
This building was erected in 1873 and used until it closed in 1929.

3. Second printing house (1837-1854) of the Evangelical Association
Market and Plumb Streets
This building later served (1854-1864) as a girls' dormitory for Union Seminary.

4. Vallerchamp Home Site
Market and Hazel Streets
Ruthanna Vallerchamp, widow of Rev.Azima Vallerchamp, ministered to Union Seminary students from 1854 until her death in 1886.

5. Emmanuel United Methodist Church
High and Plum Streets
This building was erected by the United Brethren in Christ in 1857.

6. Site of Union Seminary (1856-1887) and Central Pennsylvania College (1887-1902)
Liberty and Plum Streets
This building stood where the elementary school is now located, and there is a marker in front of the school. This institution, the first permanent educational endeavor of the Evangelical Association, merged into Albright College, then located at Myerstown PA, in 1902.

7. Francis C. Hoffman Home
Front and Walnut Streets
Rev. Francis C. Hoffman served on the faculty (1861-1863) and as principal (1863-1871) of Union Seminary. He is a brother to songwriter Rev. Elisha Hoffman, who attended Union Seminary, and a first cousin to Rev. W. W/ Orwig.

8. Site of Methodist Episcopal Church
Market Street, west of Union Street
This church building which stood here was erected in 1845, and services were discontinued sometime before 1876.

9. William W. Orwig Home
High Street, east of Union Street
Rev. W. W.Orwig was the publisher of the Evangelical Association (1836-1859) and principal of Union Seminary (1859-1863). He was elected a bishop in 1863.

10. New Berlin Cemetery
Walnut Street, north of Liberty Street
EvangelicalPlot (EastSide)
Rev.Solomon Miller (1777-1820) - first publisher (1816-1819) of the Evangelical Association
Rev. GeorgeMiller (1774-1816) - co laborer of teh successor to Jacob Labright, brother of Rev. Solomon Miller
George Miller (1794-1859) - "the printer" of the Evangelical Association
Rev. Azima Vallerchamp (1805-1854) - pioneer Evangelical Association preacher
Rev. James Barber (1797-1867) - pioneer Evangelical Association preacher

West Side
Rev. Peter Beaver (1782-1845) - pioneer Methodist Episcopal preacher, one of very few fluent in the German language
Rev. Aaron Ezra Gobble (1856-1929) - principal of Union Seminary (1881-1887), and president of Central Pennsylvania College (1887-1902)

Top Center Map of New Berlin

Left Photos Grave of Rev. Peter Beaver and 1927 Dedication of the stone monument.

Right Photos Union Seminary and Second Printing House

(Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

First Church of the Evangelical Association

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Pennsylvania, Union County, New Berlin
Early preaching services of the Evangelical Association were held in homes, schoolhouses, and public buildings. The first church building of the denomination was erected at this spot in New Berlin, Union County PA in 1816. The lot for the building was bought May 1, 1815, for the purchase price of $112.00.

The original meeting-house was a log structure, 24x38 feet, and had two entrances with double doors. The windows were small and few in number. For evening services the room was lighted by candles arranged along the walls. The "pews" were benches with open backs and fashioned from boards. The pulpit resembled a birds's nest and was built into the west wall half-way between the floor and the ceiling, with a narrow stairway for access. It was only large enough to hold one speaker at a time. There was no carpet on the floor, and the windows were without shades. No paint was used on any part of the interior. The building was heated by a large, wood-burning, ten-plate stove in the center aisle.

The structure was erected with funds gathered over the large territory in which the Evangelical Association operated and was formally dedicated on March 2, 1817, by Presiding Elder John Dreisbach - the highest ranking official of the Association. It was a day of rejoicing for the ministers and members of the denomination.

In later years the building was weather-boarded and painted white, a small steeple with a bell was placed on the roof, and the interior was remodeled. The structure was torn down in 1873, when a brick church building was erected two blocks to the north, and relics were made from the pulpit an pews.

(Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First Church Building and Printing House of the Evangelical Association

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Pennsylvania, Union County, New Berlin
The Evangelical Association was an American religious denomination formally organized by the followers of Jacob Albright in 1803.

The paving stones set in the ground mark the outlines of the first church building and the first printing house of the Evangelical Association. For over 50 years New Berlin PA served as its unofficial denominational headquarters. In 1854, as people moved westward and the Evangelical Association gained national stature, the denominational offices and operations moved to Cleveland OH.

In 1894, a split in the Evangelical Association created the United Evangelical Church. In 1922, the Evangelical Association and the United Evangelical Church re-united to form the Evangelical Church. In 1946 the Evangelical and the United Brethren in Christ denominations came together to form the Evangelical United Brethren (EUB) Church. In 1968 the EUB and Methodist denominations joined to form the United Methodist Church. This site is a Heritage Landmark of the United Methodist Church and supervised by the denomination's General Commission on Archives and History

(Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First Printing House of the Evangelical Association

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Pennsylvania, Union County, New Berlin
The first General Conference of the Evangelical Association, meeting in 1816 in the house of Martin Dreisbach of Buffalo Valley, Union County PA, authorized the establishment of a denominational printing house. The 1815 purchase of this lot in New Berlin, and the purchase of a printing press in Philadelphia by Presiding Elder John Dreisbach, laid the groundwork for such an undertaking. A smaller building was constructed beside the newly-erected meeting-house and operations began in October 1816. George Miller of Harrisburg was hired to be the printer, and Rev. Solomon Miller of Schuylkill County was elected to the office of publisher.

The first two volumes released by the printing house in 1817 were a revision of the denomination's Discipline (essentially a German version of the theologically similar Methodist Episcopal Church) and a new hymnbook Das Geistliche Saitenspiel (The Spiritual Psaltery). Within twenty years the operation had outgrown the original small building. A larger facility for the printing press, bindery operations and living quarters was purchased on the northeast corner of Market and Plum Streets. The publishing house of the Evangelical Association occupied that structure, now a private home, until the entire operation moved to Cleveland OH in 1854.

As compensation for losing the publishing house, New Berlin was named as the inaugural site for Union Seminary, the denomination's first permanent educational institution and the forerunner of Albright College. The second printing house building then served as a girls' dormitory from 1854 until it was sold in 1864.

(Churches, Etc. • Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

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