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ST.
ROMAN CATHOLIC ClillRCH::: NEW GERMANY.
JOS"EPH'S
z. M. Miller.
by Miss
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The
missionery
first
area;
that in June
reported
1848� and the
began in
since.
! ;
k· ·
1837 there
of
..i:he first
111ere
s·ettlers
was
k nown as
recorded .May 6th.
1849.
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St.. J ose . p h ;.s Black Creek. The are a
came
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to be
.
called New G er m an y because the sett i e r s who came to this
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.
\.
.
. ar.ea
_ s-p o ke German. CThe
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dio_cese
in the
'n'u-mbe�i;,of
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being little more than wild_erness, The result was that o f t e n the
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. peop le.,.:.of
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f?lack Creek. w ou d
s��- a priest for mon t hs .
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n�t
Constr.uction of a.church b e g an in.. 1848-�nd ifwas'b·l�ssed and
dedica'ed Jn 1s49;, in ·�a69 the t o� e ( ol the thurch ·was b u ilt
with 2 bells .installed . E ve n tho u g h thee.area was referredto as
f'Jew_9ermaoy' at no {{me was 'it e ve r ·atticiaffY'' cafled that
name. The post office was in Stevensville and f o r many years
the people went th ere for their mail. U l ti m at e l y a post office
was e stabl ish ed in the vi llage aod given the name Snyder after
,
a L uth e ra n minister wh o resided there aUhe time. In 1920 the
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i
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Gerrnan spea1Wig priests.
were small and ttfe t er r i t ory huge, with most
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,
.
.
.,
post office was discontinued.
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.
.
this.
twenty families.""
St. Joseph's Church, Snyder. is the oldest 'remaining
ctfurch-in Willoughby Township. In the be g i nni n g -the church.
was
in
rd.,
the same building
congregation has used
baptism
·
the north side of Town line
of the: Church on
cr•na,truction
ever
to look after the �erma:n
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