No. 67   May 2008
The authoritative source on
early churches in New Jersey

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We've created a database and photographic inventory on more than half the 18th & 19th century churches in the state and add to it each month. We welcome and solicit all contributions and suggestions from our visitors.

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Vintage photographs

Although the website was created to make available contemporary photographs, there are too many interesting churches that have disappeared—except on old albumen prints or in engravings made for pre-1900 books and magazines. We solicit such images from our readers and will reproduce at least one every month, along with such historical information as we can find about these vanished churches.
     If you would like to see an image in your possession on this site, we are pleased to receive your own scans, or you may send us the photograph and we will create a high resolution scan and return the image to you with a copy of the scan and our thanks!

First Baptist Church
Freehold, Monmouth County

This is the third church erected by the congregation which dates to 1834. The church was built in 1846 and considerably enlarged and re-designed in 1869 by Isaac Pursell, a Philadelphia architect. It looks much like it did in this old photo except that it is now painted while with dark trim.

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