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Weert’s Corner New School Baptist Church
East Amwell Township, Hunterdon County

At a meeting in 1834 a group composed in part of members from the Amwell Baptist church in Flemington resolved to erect a building to be known as the “Baptist meetinghouse at Weert’s Corner.” Land for the church and burial ground was donated and the building was completed that year. Curiosly, there were two other Baptist congregation nearby, but one was a German Baptist (Dunker) congregation and the other, in Hopewell, an Old School church; apparently the Baptists were notable, even then, for splitting on the basis of doctrinal disputes.
     Note the oculus window above the front entry, the modified lancet windows and the neoclassical trim on the roofline in this building,unusual in a backwater hamlet.

The building is now a private residence.

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