Atglen: Atlgen UMC

Name/Title

Atglen: Atlgen UMC

Scope and Content

Box 1 File 1: Board Minutes 1949, 1966-1968 File 2: Cemetery Records 1939-1973 File 3: Annual Budgets 1951, 1967, 1968, 1975 File 4: Newspaper Clippings 1971-1974 File 5: Building Sketch 2000 File 6: Historical Sketch

Collection

Closed Churches Collection

Location

Location

Cabinet

Cabinet B1

Room

Basement Archives

Date

October 3, 2022

General Notes

Note Type

History

Note

Penningtonville Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1853 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Penningtonville became a borough in 1876 and changed its name to Atglen, at which point the church changed its name to Atglen Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1997, Atglen United Methodist Church and nearby Gap United Methodist Church merged, creating Asbury Community United Methodist Church, which met at the Atglen location until it was discontinued in 2002. The Atglen United Methodist Church records, 1920-2000, consist primarily of trustee minutes (1932-1995) and membership and vital records such as baptisms, marriages, and deaths, (1920-1987), with a small amount of board minutes, annual budgets, cemetery records, newspaper clippings, church history, and a building sketch.