First Lutheran Synod : Marker #6-64
N 39° 48.236 W 082° 17.792
17S E 389010 N 4406800
St. Paul Luthern Church, Gay Street
Somerset, OH
Waymark Code: WM7KR
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 02/14/2006
Views: 27
Lutheran congregations formed in Perry County beginning in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth century. The Mother Synod, the Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania, sent missionary pastors to Ohio to preach to the growing number of Lutherans moving into the state. St. Paul congregation was formed in 1812 under the leadership of William Forester. On September 14, 1818, the Joint Synod of Ohio, the first synodical organization of Lutherans west of the Appalachian Mountains and one of the earliest predecessors of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, was founded in Somerset at the original log church on this site. St. Paul's current church on W. Main was constructed in 1844.
Marker Number: 6-64
County: Perry
Significance of Location: Place
Bicentenial Mark: yes
Website address: [Web Link]
Additional Coordinate: Not Listed
Additional Coordinate description: Not listed
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