First Presbyterian Church of Ardmore - Ardmore, OK
N 34° 10.477 W 097° 07.878
14S E 672227 N 3783095
The First Presbyterian Church of Ardmore is at 223 W Broadway St, Ardmore, OK. Sunday services are at 10:30 AM.
Waymark Code: WM127TF
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 03/22/2020
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While the church has a fairly good
website, it is really devoted more to the here-and-now, with no history provided. Their
Facebook page gives 1916 as the year of establishment, matching what is on the church cornerstone, and making them a comparatively young church by Ardmore standards: Ardmore was incorporated in 1899, and Oklahoma became a state in 1907.
The Tower Bells website has some interesting information on the church's bells, which are visible atop the bell tower. Produced by the Meneely Bell Foundry of Watervliet, NY, they were installed in 1919 -- possibly the first in Oklahoma -- but removed in 2002 due to structural issues. They were cleaned up, restored, retuned, and put back into place in 2004. There are a total of eleven bells, and the largest can be rung independently of the others.