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SHARON WICK'S NOTE:
As of 2018, this Church is still standing and in
very good condition. It is still named St.
Jacobs Lutheran Church.
It is located on corner of N. Second Street and
E. Central Ave., Miamisburg, Miami Twp.,
Montgomery Co., Ohio
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SHARON WICK'S NOTE:
As of 2018, this Church is still standing and in
very good condition. It is still now named
Trinity Church.
It is located on corner of S. Second Street and
E. Linden Ave., Miamisburg, Miami Twp.,
Montgomery Co., Ohio
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ALEXANDERVILLE
This town was
platted March 24, 1815, by John Taylor.
The extensive earthworks already described are
near this place. The Dryden mill
and distillery for a long time gave some
business importance to the village. The
mill, after a number of changes in management,
is yet in operation. Many of the people of
the village find employment in the mills at West
Carrollton, of which town Alexanderville has
practically become a part.
THE ST. JOHN'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH is located
in Miami township about two miles east of
Miamisburg.
It is commonly called “Gebhart church,” because it is
located in the Gebhart neighborhood and
because the land, on which it is located, was
granted the congregation, for the small
consideration of only ten dollars, by the late
George Gebhart. The land
given, measures two acres and four perches, and
was granted for
the double purpose of church buildings, and
cemetery use.
The first services held in the neighborhood, were
conducted in the home of pious George
Gebhart, as early as 1805.
The exact date of the formation of the congregation is
somewhat shrouded in mystery, but in view of the
fact that a church building was erected in 1806,
or 1808, it seems safe to conjecture that the
congregation was organized about that time.
The Lutherans and the Reformed conjointly put up this
first old-style “Log Church.” It remained
in an unfinished condition for some ten or
twelve years.
In 1862 the Lutherans separated themselves from the
Reformed, and erected a good-sized, tasty and
comfortable brick church. The Reformed
continued to worship in the old church edifice,
until the Reformed congregation, by the action
of the Miami Classis, in convention assembled,
at Winchester, in October, 1867, was declared
disbanded and dissolved.
The old Union church was sold at public auction for the
sum of seventy-nine dollars, which money was
used to repair the graveyard fence, improve the
cemetery lots, and so forth.
St. John’s church has over one hundred and fifty
members, with a Sunday school of one hundred.
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The list of the ministers who have served it in its
long history are the following: Revs.
J. C. Dill, H. Heincke, C. Albrecht, W. A.
Bowman, H. L. Ridenour, A. Dietrich, C. F.
Tiemann, and F. W. E. Peschau, D. D.
The longest pastorates were those of the Revs.
Ideincke, Albrecht, Bowman and Peschau, Rev. Dr.
Peschau having had charge of it now for ten
years. During his ministry, the
church has undergone an entire renovation, being
finely frescoed, carpeted, with roof improved,
and so forth, at an expense of one thousand
dollars. The cemetery has also undergone some
very fine imporvements, and the church as
it stands is, indeed, a credit to the devoted
flock.
The neighboring church buildings of the Zion Reformed
and the Evangelical Lutheran congregations,
located near the northern line of Miami
township, close to the Cincinnati pike, are the
successors of a church building which was long
used by the Reformed and Lutheran congregations
in common. About 1884 a storm injured the
old building. Arrangements were made
according to which the Reformed kept and
repaired the old building and the Lutherans
built a new church building near by.
Together they make an important religious center
for the community.
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