![]() This church, which is further discussed in a post from June 2021, served the African American community in Marple and the surrounding townships. ![]() Marple’s other church was what was then known as the African Union Church of Marple (and after a split in the denomination during the 1860s, it would become Marple UAME). Built in 1860 for $2,000, house still stands at 61 Church Lane. A Sunday school running from April to November was established in 1858 and with the installation of Hotchkin in October 1859, plans were made to erect a new manse (parsonage). Cross, who served in a supply (interim) capacity from 1844 to 1852 Rev. The church had four pastors during the 1850s: Rev. By the 1850s, the church had become an important township institution and in 1859 it had roughly 90 communicants. ![]() The older of Marple’s two churches was Marple Presbyterian Church, which had been constructed in 1835 on what is now Sproul Road near the intersection with Marple Road and the appropriately named Church Lane. Įarly 20th century postcard showing Marple Presbyterian Church. Some, such as the Coppocks, even facilitated Quaker worship, allowing meetings to be held in their home before donating land for what is now Springfield Friends Meeting. As such, most of Marple’s early settlers were members of this denomination. Southeastern Pennsylvania had been largely settled by English and Welsh members of the Society of Friends (commonly known as Quakers) at the onset of colonization in the 1680s. Additionally, of these, a healthy majority were adherents to some form of Protestant Christianity. ![]() Despite this, we can say with confidence that the vast majority of the township’s residents in the 1850s were at least nominally Christians. Map of church locations around Marple Township in the 1850s, color coded by denomination: African Union ( hunter green ), Episcopal ( purple ), Methodist ( yellow ), nondenominational ( grey ), Presbyterian ( red ), Quaker ( blue ), and Roman Catholic ( green ).ĭue to the separation of church and state, the census does not inquire about individuals’ religious beliefs, so it can be hard to come up with statistics on the religious affiliation (if any) of Marple’s residents in the 1850s. ![]()
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