Dixboro United Methodist Church

Dixboro United Methodist Church

 

In its earliest years, the Village of Dixboro was served by "circuit-riding" preachers.  The infrequency of these visits and the "occurrence of carousing in the local taverns" led many of the village residents to voice the need for a local church.  In September of 1857, Ira W. Donaldson, an Ann Arbor minister, started revival meetings in Dixboro.  These meetings were well attended and "society took a different tone."  A meeting was called on December 10, 1857, "for the purpose of taking into consideration the location and form of a church to be erected in said place."  The Church was built in 1858 and has served the community since that time as a focus for worship and fellowship.

 

WASHTENAW COUNTY SU-37 HISTORICAL MARKER

 

Submitted by 

Bryan Arnold

@nanowhiskers