File:Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley (1895) (14596692157).jpg

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Title: Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Croll, P. C. (Philip Columbus), 1852-1949
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Publisher: Philadelphia : Lutheran Publication Society
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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in holy things, should arouse an interest to keep thislandmark from total decay. According to an account of the event preserved bythe Moravian pastor in the Hebron Diary, the first Re-formed church was dedicated 0:1 the i8th of July, 1762.The name of Tabor was given it, evidently from theMt. Tabor of Scripture. In this buildinsf the cono-reo-a-tion worshiped regularly until June 12th, 1792, whenthe present stone edifice was erected. There was aninterim of several years between the razing of the oldchurch and the completion of the new, when the rio-htof worship in their church edifice was kindly accordedthis flock by the Salem Lutherans. Improvements to the property have constantly beenmade since the beginning. In 1772 the church lotswere enclosed by a dry stone wall, at a nominal expenseof about $130, because of the very reasonable rates oflabor and material at that day. On March 8, 1780, anadjoining property—the lot on which the present church15 2l8 LANDMARKS IN THE LEBANON VALLEY.
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MT. TABOR REFORMED CHURCH AND CEMETERY, LEBANON, PA. stands, and on which was then already standing thestone honse, now nsed as a sextons honse, bnt for manyyears as a congregational or parochial school-honse— TABOR REFORMED CHURCH. 219 was boug-ht of Philip Greenawalt and wife, for the sumof thirty pounds, or about $146. When this purchasewas made, Gottfried Eichelbrener, Michael Krebs andRudolph Kelker were the trustees. In the deed trans-ferring this property, the school is mentioned, whichwas built some twenty years previous to this date, andis still here as a witness to the value set upon instruc-tion by our early German ancestors. A parsonage waspurchased by a committee representing the differentcongregations constituting this pastorate at that day,viz., the Lebanon, Hill and Jonestown churches. Theywere Gottfried Eichelbrener, Nicholas Weiss, JacobLausher, Henry Dubs, John Tetweiler and JohnBickel. This house stood many years on the site of thepresent handsome parsonage, corn

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