Bethel Meeting House Memorial Stone

Bethel Meeting House, culture, Glen Carbon, memorial, Methodist Church, Religion

“Bethel Meeting House Memorial Stone,” Madison Historical, accessed April 19, 2024, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/archive/items/show/418.

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Erected near this site in 1805 by the frontier citizens of the Goshen Settlement was the first Methodist Church in Illinois. These grounds surrounding it were the scene of many early camp meetings and frontier revivals. In later years the church burned and was not rebuilt but at cedar grove, Ebenezer, Salem at Wanda and St. John’s at Edwardsville, to which the Bethel congregation moved after the fire. This stone is a memorial to those pioneers through whose vision and sacrifice the Methodist Church was founded in Illinois.

• Glen Carbon Heritage Museum

Glen Carbon Heritage Museum Photograph Collection

• Glen Carbon

• Photograph

• GCHM-P-0134
• Original archive: 10-02-004_1