76 INDIANA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 



1844-5, one of the most unusual mildness. It was also 

 one in which death visited many families severely. The 

 complaint was termed the lung or winter fever. I have 

 arrived now at that point where I must mention that fact 

 in my history — the erection of the first Church building 

 in Crown Point — 



In the summer of 1845 that beautiful structure which 

 is such an ornament to our town, the Methodist Church 

 of Crown Point was erected — but not completely finished 

 off as it is now until the following season. And to keep 

 pace with it (a snail's pace is easily kept) the foundation 

 of that comodiously finished structure, the Presbyterian 

 Church was laid. 



But romance apart: Are these church buildings now 

 in the condition that they should have arrived at, even at 

 a snail's pace, in two years. 



Is it creditable to the character of this community as 

 a civilized people, to say nothing of their duty as a reli- 

 gious one, that they continue to meet for worship in this 

 dirty old log house, that is not only too small, too dirty, 

 inconvenient & unhealthy, but a dishonor to the God here- 

 in worshipped. 



I hope a future historian will be able to write, that in 

 1847, two neatly finished churches in Crown Point were 

 completed, and from that time ever forward, we were 

 called to the hour and house of prayer by the sound of a 

 sweet toned village bell. 



The accommodation of the people of the county was 

 greatly increased this year, in getting grain made into 

 bread stuff, by the mill of Wilson & Sanders on Deep 

 River below Woods, (and as he thinks not quite far 

 enough below) and by a large mill erected at the upper 

 rapids of the Kankakee, about ten miles west of our west 

 line. 



The crop of wheat this year was a very good one, as 

 was also the crop of corn. Large quantities of butter 

 were made for sale in Lake County this year, and con- 

 siderable quantities of cheese — 



