Stone Church clean-up Saturday

Thursday, May 16, 2019
Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Gazette

Stone Church supporters plan their annual clean-up day for the 119-year-old church Saturday, May 18, starting at 10 a.m. The annual church meeting will be Sunday, May 26, at 6 p.m. Hitchcock County pioneers organized a Methodist Protestant congregation in a sod church in 1892, and built the stone church — by hand using stone quarried five miles southwest of the church — in 1900. In 1904, St. Paul Methodist Protestant Church merged with United Brethren in Christ and in 1907, the group organized as United Brethren. Regular church services discontinued at the Stone Church in 1951. In 1975, the Stone Church Community Association dedicated itself to the restoration and preservation of the Stone Church as a memorial to their pioneer ancestors. The church is located eight miles south of Culbertson on Highway 17.

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