CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY
FAIRVIEW VILLAGE
METHODIST CHURCH
1463 Chesapeake Road
FAIRVIEW
VILLAGE METHODIST CHURCH, which is not to be confused with the Fairview
Methodist Church which was at North
23rd Street and River
Avenue in Cramer Hill,
first met as an organized church and Sunday School in 1920. The meeting
place was above the Weiss Brothers 5 and 10 Cent Store at 2961 Yorkship
Square, Camden. The Primary Department,
which had a small pump organ, met in a room of six by eight feet. Mrs. Matthews, Mrs. H. Haig, and Mrs. Herbert Taylor
had charge of ten or twelve children ranging in age from two to twelve years. The congregation consisted of twenty to
twenty-five people. From this number a small choir was formed. The place of meeting soon became inadequate and
the congregation moved across the street to above what was then Carlton
H Strang's drugstore,
later Edmund J. Lenny’s real estate office at 2977 Yorkship
Square. In 1959 the church was, with the addition of a new sanctuary, for all intents and purposes rebuilt. The family of the Rev. Stacy D. Myers, gave the baptismal font in memory of their parents, which font is still in use. |
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Camden Courier-Post July 26, 1941 |
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