The Photo Gallery

  

It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.

They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.

Went for a long drive to search for a thing I'd seen some years ago as a passenger.  

We were driving along and I saw this tower(as pictured above) through the trees as we drove up a steep hill. Our path veered off to the right as we got to the top of the hill but I had my eyes peeled for this thing, and as we got to an intersection I looked down the road and saw it. 

I remember roughly where it was so I fired up googlemaps and started looking. Found it. :)

Some info I found about the church.  

In 1744 Conrad Koch gave the German Reformed congregation in Greenwich Township two acres to build a church. It was known as"Dunkel's Kirche." In 1790 the congregation decided to build a new church. In 1824 the church was renovated under the supervision of George Dietrich and John Lenhart. The renewed church was consecrated on October 6, 1824 by the Rev. Benjamin Herman, Lutheran, and the Rev. Augustus Herman, Reformed and given the name "New Jerusalem Church" (Dunkel's Kirche). The timber for the church was brought by sled from Williamsport, Pennsylvania. during the winter, by the Merkels, Dunkels, Dietrichs, and Leibys. In 1859 the congregation decided to build a new church of brick. The corner-stone was laid on June 12, 1859. They were assisted in building the church by Henry Fisher who lived west of Dunkel's Church. Found elsewhere that it hasn't been in use since 1971. PA is weird.