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Seventh Day Adventist Church

Historic Site #:	09-075   (Exists)   Type: E1	Town:	Palmyra
Site Name:	Seventh Day Adventist Church	GPS Coordinates:	43.084737, -77.148146
Address:	4881 Tellier Road Palmyra NY
Description:

 

East Palmyra Methodist Church, c1900 (courtesy Wayne Count Historical Society)	Seventh Day Adventist Church, 2014 (used with permission LA Jorgensen)

 

Historic narrative:

Organized in 1824, the Methodist Episcopal Society purchased the Hawthorn House. Mr. Hawthorn served as sexton and lived on the ground floor; the congregation held services on the second floor.  In 1843 they built a hewn-log building in 1843. They replaced the burned building with brick in 1867 at Tellier and Whitbeck Roads.  After closing in 1955, the building was sold to the Seventh Day Adventist Church in 1957. The Adventist congregation began in Newark in the early 1950s. In 1967 the congregation built a new auditorium on the west side of the building.

References:

Landmarks of Wayne County. George W. Cowles. 1895.

East Palmyra Seventh Day Adventist Church. Ralph A Brown. 1981. Hoffman Foundation Essay.

Times of Wayne County, January 29, 2017. “History of East Palmyra ME Church.”

East Palmyra remembered: the story of a hamlet. Beth Hoad and Sylvia Harding 2004.