Bethel Church and Graveyard explained

Bethel Church and Graveyard
Location:Bethel Rd., 0.5 miles west of its junction with Riverside Rd. and east of Attica, Logan Township, Fountain County, Indiana
Coordinates:40.2964°N -87.1775°W
Built:, 1850
Architecture:Greek Revival
Added:March 3, 1995
Refnum:95000203

Bethel Church and Graveyard, also known as Bethel Community Church, is a historic church and cemetery in Logan Township, Fountain County, Indiana. The church was built in 1850 and is a one-story, simple Greek Revival-style timber-frame building. It measures 36feetby50feetft (byft). It has a medium-pitched gable roof and sits on a sandstone block foundation coated in stucco. The congregation has been meeting on this site since 1825. The first marked burial in the adjacent cemetery dates to 1825.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) . Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology . Searchable database. 2015-10-01. Note: This includes Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Bethel Church and Graveyard. 2015-10-01. Jeffrey L. Bossaer and Suzanne Fischer. PDF. April 1994. and Accompanying photographs.