LOUISA COUNTY, IOWA

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LONG CREEK CENTER CHURCH
Wapello Township, Louisa County, Iowa

Transcribed by Sharon Elijah, September 23, 2016

        The English Methodist Church was located north of the Long Creek Cemetery. It was a building about fifty feet long and forty feet wide. It had lath and plaster. It was a community church because people didn’t travel very far in the 1890’s.

        In 1905 the Louisa Center Church was built just a short distance west of Long Creek Center Church. About the same time Cross Road Chapel Church was built about two miles east. People went to these new churches and Long Creek Center Church was closed. The building was sold to Henry Grouwinkel. He cut the building in two, put them on hay ladders pulled by a team of horses, and moved them to his home place. They were put together again and it was used as a scale house. The building still stands, but for years the scales was used by neighbors to weigh cattle, hogs and grain.

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SAND PRAIRIE CHURCH
Wapello Township, Louisa County, Iowa

        Sand Prairie was a German speaking Methodist Church which stood on a point of land formed by the Rock Island Railroad right of way and the county road in front of the Henry Weber farm, now 110th St. It closed when Cross Roads Chapel was built, around 1900.