First Presbyterian - Oneonta, NY
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N 42° 27.328 W 075° 03.594
18T E 495074 N 4700350
Oneonta First Presbyterian is in the Presbytery of Susquehanna Valley.
Waymark Code: WMX7A0
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 12/07/2017
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Worship Service: 10:45AM Winter, 10:00AM Summer
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"Comfort Food is always Comfort Food! :) We got plenty of it, so come on down, 4:30 to 7:00 pm today: Chicken & Biscuits with all the trimmings, Home Made Pies, Take Out available, Holiday Bazaar set up in the Narthex to get a jump on your Christmas Shopping. "
"The Outreach committee is organizing a highway clean-up day on Saturday, May 21st! Keep posted for more details to follow in the church bulletin! Looking forward to a great day of service to our community!"
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"The first religious organization in this village was of the Presbyterian order and faith, and was formed in the year 1786...About 1805, preparations were made for the erection of a house of worship. A large part of the timber necessary for the frame-work of the building was delivered near the spot where the present edifice stands, but through the inability of the church to go on with the work which had been so auspiciously begun, the enterprise failed, and the entire bill of lumber rotted on the ground. ... In 1815 materials for a church building was again collected, and in the following year this house of God, in its original form, was raised and inclosed, and in it, as it was in its unfinished state, with a work-bench for a platform and rough boards for seats, the people worshiped until such time as their means enabled them to complete it (which was not until some seven or eight years later), and to-day it stands as a monument of the sacrifices and Christian zeal of that resolute and sturdy people. ..1821, Jan. 16-deeded to the trustees of the church, to be used for a church and burial purposes, all that portion of land embraced within the old cemetery and the present church-grounds...The church edifice was enlarged and beautified in 1868, and on April 23, 1869, was rededicated. In 1868 the society was the recipient of a gift of $1000 from Collis P. HUNTINGTON, Esq., of New York, with which was purchased an organ. The church is now in a prosperous condition and annually extends its sphere of usefulness."