Rural H Historic c Struct tural S Survey - Will County Land Use

Wiss, Jann ney, Elstner Associates, A
Inc c.
Churches s and Cemete
The first church in Flo
southwest t corner of S
constructi ion, 32 feet in
first met in various sc
eastern pa art of the tow
attended churches c in E
church to o the east.
resident o
abandone
where the
a Method
Residents
89
eries
orence Towns ship was the
Section 10. As A described
n width and 43 4 feet in leng
choolhouses and a private h
wnship; many y residents in
Elwood or Wi ilmington.
This church
of a nearby farm, who k
d as long as he could rem
e Symerton Ev vangelical Ch
dist congrega ation in Wilm
worship in nearby n commu
88 A
apparently h
knew the bui
member. 90 German Eva
in published
gth. The cong
homes.
It s
hurch had bee
mington. By
unities such a
87 angelical Chu
d sources, the
gregation had
This church cater
the northweestern
or sout
A township hhall
was built
had been abaandoned
by t
lding as the “Dunker Ch
eems likely tthat
the congr
en built prior to 1910. The
1928, no chhurches
were
as Wilmingtonn.
91
urch, construccted
in 1874 at the
e building wwas
of wood frame
d been organiized
in 1866 aand
at
red primarilyy
to families in the
thwestern parrts
of the towwnship
soon afterwaards
adjacent to the
the early tweentieth
centuury.
A
hurch,” statedd
that it had been
regation reloccated
to Symmerton,
church eventtually
mergedd
with
e maintainedd
in the townnship.
This buildin ng at the corner of o South Street and a Symerton Ro oad is likely the fformer
Symertonn
Evangelical Ch Church, much
remodeled.
87
Stevens
88
Woodruf
89
Stevens
90
Telepho
(1907), 82.
ff (1878), 583.
(1907), 83.
one interview of o Merle Jone es (257 North Raynor Streett,
Joliet, Illinoois)
by staff oof
Midewin Naational
Tallgrass Prairie, P Septem mber 18, 2001. Mr. Jones was
born in 19111
and left the ttownship
in 19927.
His father was a
tenant on a farm owned by b Sarah Carey y in the northea ast quarter of seection
14.
91
Maue (1928),
205.
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Will CCounty
Rural Hisstoric
Structural Survey
Florence Toownship