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do; work started by Central, Lockport, and West Clinton congregations. An annual open-air hymn-sing is held.

Barrville 1936

Two miles north of Reedsville, two miles north on road between Belleville and Milroy. Belleville, Pa.

3. Elam H. Click

4. Elam H. Glick

5. 62

6. Began as Sunday school outreach of the Maple Grove congregation, Belleville, Pa., under the guidance of Bishop Aaron Mast. Transferred to Allegheny Conference 1957.

Bay Shore 1945

3908 Chapel Drive, Sarasota, Fla.

3. T. H. Brenneman

4. Nelson Kanagy

5. 277

6. On July 4, 1944, Phil Frey of Archbold, Ohio, met with the permanent Mennonite residents at a picnic. After an open discussion it was agreed to investigate the possibility of organizing a congregation under either the IndianaMichigan Conference or the Ohio and Eastern Conference. The Ohio and Eastern Conference sent bishops E. B.

Bay Shore, Sarasota, Fla.

Frey and O. N. Johns to Sarasota and they organized the Bay Shore congregation Apr. 17, 1945.

Beaverdam 1940

Pa. Rt. 89 one-half mile north of Pa. Rt. 6. Corry, Pa., R.D. 6.

3. Lewis Kletzley (Supt.)

4. Donald D. Nofziger

5. 140

6. Congregation had its beginning when Lewis Kletzley and a number of members of the Britton Run congregation organized a Sunday school in a closed church building at Beaverdam in Erie County, Pa.

Beech 1848

10037 Easton St., N.E., Louisville, Ohio, R.D. 3.

3. Jacob Conrad, Sr.

4. Wayne North

5. 332

6. Founded by Alsatian and Swiss Amish Mennonite emigrants, who settled in Stark County, Ohio, as early as c. 1825. Formerly a member of the Eastern Amish Mennonite Conference. The Stoner Heights congregation at Louisville, Ohio, was started as a mission outreach of the Beech congregation.

Beaverdam, Corry, Pa.