290 - Galena First UM Church - Galena, IL
N 42° 24.966 W 090° 25.797
15T E 711459 N 4699177
First Methodist Church to be built in N.W. Illinois.
Waymark Code: WM3N5D
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 04/23/2008
Views: 20
Located in Historic Galena, IL, this church was the first Methodist Church to be organized and built in N.W. Illinois. It is listed as UMC Historic Site #290. Established in 1828, the first church was built in 1833. In 1838 the church was destroyed by fire. The present church was built in 1854.
Gen. U.S. Grant was a member of this congregation.
There has no UMC Historic plaque mounted on this building.