Ethnic Germans

ID: 1135 ~ Source: Daniel Vivian ~ Creator: Daniel Vivian ~ Date: 2015

This file appears in: St. Mark’s United Church of Christ

Scripture written in German is featured on a marble stone taken from the church building erected in 1899. St. Mark's held most of its services in German until World War I, when anti-German sentiment led the congregation to switch to English.
Image courtesy of Daniel Vivian

This file appears in: St. Mark’s United Church of Christ

St. Mark’s United Church of Christ

By Carl Creason, Hannah O'Daniel, Katherine Gann, Daniel Michael & Leanna Smith

St. Mark’s United Church of Christ reflects New Albany’s European immigrant heritage and the destruction caused by the devastating flood of 1937. During the early nineteenth century, political upheaval in what is now Germany led to massive…