Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Daily Herald Telephone, April 30, 1966, sec. 1, p. 5. NOTE: The item below was abstracted by Randi Richardson from the original that was accompanied by one photograph. The new Harrodsburg First Methodist Church iss to be consecrated on Sunday. The old church building was destroyed by fire on January 30, 1965, and a new building erected. First services in the new edifice were December 19, 1965. The town of Harrodsburg was laid out in 1836, and a Methodist Society formed in 1854. In 1864 land was acquired from Owen D. Evans and a two-story frame building erected jointly by the Methodist church and the Masonic Lodge, each using a floor. A new parsonage was erected in 1940 and, in 1945 following the absorption of Lodge No. 322 by the Bloomington Masonic Lodge, the upper floor of the building was deeded to the church trustees. In 1963, church trustees purchased 23 acres on the west side of Harrodsburg to be developed as a site for a new building. Plans for the building were approved in 1964 and ground was broken for the new church in 1965 following the fire that destroyed the original building. Members of the building committee responsible for the new church were: Russell Smith, chairman; Mrs. David E. Strain, treasurer; and Ralph I. Deckard, Paul E. Roberts, Melvin B. Smith, David E. Strain, Curtis R. Sylvester, Joseph C. Sylvester, Ralph E. Sylvester, J. Earl Taylor, Byron J. Ticen and Harold E. Watson.