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1771 - Chapel built and church organized by former
members of the First German Reformed Church.
1774 - Philip William Otterbein began his 39-year
pastorate after serving from 1752 as a German Reformed missionary in
America.
1785 - Present church erected. Now oldest in
continuous use in Baltimore.
1789 - Tower bells from Germany installed,
heralding services and national events ever since. Clergy meeting
here initiated the United Brethren denomination.
1798 - Congregation incorporated by the Maryland
Legislature as the German Evangelical Reformed Church of Howard's
Hill, Baltimore.
1811 - Present parsonage erected.
1827 - First German Sunday School in Baltimore
opened.
1872 - Present Sunday School building, the Nelker
Building, replaced an earlier structure near the tower.
1897 - Niemann Tracker organ installed and furnace
replaced stoves.
1946 - Evangelical Church and United Brethren
merged.
1968 - United Methodist Church formed by a union
between the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United
Brethren
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