IOWA HISTORY PROJECT

CHURCH DIRECTORY FOR IOWA

BAPTIST.

The following places where churches are organized are reported in the official proceedings of the Iowa Baptist State Convention:

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      The Upper Iowa Annual Conference was formed by the action of the General Conference in 1856, embracing all that part of the State of Iowa lying north of a line commencing at Davenport, and running on the line of the railroad to Iowa City; thence up the Iowa River to the south-west corner of Benton county; thence due west to the Missouri River, embracing Iowa City and Davenport. It was divided into nine Districts and eighty-eight Stations, Circuits and Missions, with fifty traveling Preachers in full connection, and twenty-eight on probation. The first session of the Conference was held at Maquketa, commencing August 27th, 1856. Bishop E. S. Janes presiding, Rev. Landon Taylor, Sec'y.

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      The State is now divided into three Annual Conferences, the Iowa, Upper Iowa and Des Moines.

      The Iowa Annual Conference is bounded as follows to-wit: Commencing at Davenport on the Mississippi River; thence down said river to the south line of the State; thence west on said State line to the south-west corner of Appanoose county; thence north to the south side of Marshall county, leaving the town of Knoxville; thence east on the south line of Marshall county to the Iowa River; thence down said river to Iowa City; thence on the line of the railroad to Davenport, leaving Davenport and Iowa City in the Upper Iowa Conference, and the intermediate places in the Iowa Conferences. It is divided into sox districts and seventy-three Stations, Circuits and Missions, with eighty-three traveling Preachers in full connection, and six on probation.

      The Upper Iowa Conference is bounded as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the north-east corner of the state; thence down the Mississippi River to Davenport; thence westward by the line of the Iowa Conference to the south-east corner of Storey county; thence due north to the State line; thence east on said line to the place of beginning, and  is divided into six Districts and eighty-nine Stations, Circuits and Missions, with one hundred and two traveling Preachers in full connection, and nine on probation.

     The Des Moines Conference includes all that part of the State of Iowa not included in the Iowa and Upper Iowa Conferences, and the Dakota Mission, in Dakota Territory. It is divided into six districts and fifty-eight Stations, Circuits and Missions, with fifty-five traveling Preachers in full connection, and nine on probation.

      There are in the State 485 local Preachers, 33,072 Church members, and 35, 358 Sabbath school scholars.  

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West Irving

West Point

Missouri River Presbytery.

Keokuk Presbytery.

Cedar Valley Presbytery.

Marshalltown

Iowa City Presbytery.

Du Buque Presbytery.

Pleasant Prairie

    In the Presbytery at Keokuk the following churches:

     In the Presbytery of Le Claire, the following churches:

         In the Presbytery of Nebraska the following churches:

     From the journal of the proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Convention held at Des Moines, May 31st, and June 1st, 1865, we find reported the following Parishes: