I have had a request for any information about Chapel Hill Church & School. Any information anyone has about this would be most appreciated. Here is an excerpt from the email: ------------ There is some info on the Christian County website...about the early days of Barker's Mill Community, which is wonderful. I would love any specific information about Chapel Hill Church. Any personal recollections of services there. Any pictures of old church. Who helped build it. Information about the school conducted in the chapel. customs of the early church (it has 2 doors....was one for men and one women?). Or even what the culture was like during the 1850's. Also any info on Chapel Hill Farm. -------------------- Thanks, Julie

While not specific to Christian County, Sweet, William Warren, Religion on the American frontier [v. 1]" has a great deal about the preachers, churches, and customs of the Baptist Church in northern Kentucky before about 1830. Volume 1 is subtitled: "The Baptists, 1783-1830, a collection of source material." Volume 2 is subtitled: "The Presbyterians, 1783-1840 : a collection of source materials." Volume three is subtitled: "The Congregationalists, a collection of source materials." Volume four is subtitled: "The Methodists, a collection of source materials." Another book by the same author looks interesting: "The rise of Methodism in the West; being the Journal of the Western conference,1800-1811;" ed., with notes and introduction, by William Warren Sweet. The ISU library has 15 books by him all on early church history in the USA and the western territories of the early 1800s. I've read the Baptist volume and it had lots of detailed history about preachers and churches, including some church records. Often the clerk's report of the proceedings of the monthly church meeting and the annual association meeting said a great deal about how things were run. Gerald J. -- Entire content copyright Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer. Reproduction by permission only.