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The Blue Church, September 23, 2017

On a ride, discovered this wee church near the St. Lawrence.THE BLUE CHURCH On January 1, 1790, inhabitants of Augusta and Elizabethtown townships agreed to bui...
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On a ride, discovered this wee church near the St. Lawrence.THE BLUE CHURCH On January 1, 1790, inhabitants of Augusta and Elizabethtown townships agreed to build a church here in the "burying yard" of the proposed town of "New Aswegatchie". Subscriptions were inadequate and nothing was built by 1804 when Barbara Heck, the founder of Methodism in Upper Canada, was buried here. In 1809 Anglicans of Augusta and Elizabethtown built a frame chapel, later called the "Blue Church", which served the parish until St. James, Maitland, was opened in 1826. The "Blue Church", unconsecrated, rarely used for services and in bad repair, was partially burned and taken down in 1840. The present small blue church was built in 1845. Erected by the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board, Department of Public Records and Archives of Ontario
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