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Everyone is Welcome (HM188Z)

Location: Taneytown, MD 21787 Carroll County
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Country: United States of America
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N 39° 39.511', W 77° 10.694'

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Settlers like German Protestants along with the French-and English-speaking Roman Catholics brought their unique cultures and their different religious denominations to Taneytown. By the 1750s, the German Reformed Church had organized its congregation on Emmitsburg Road and shared a union church building first with German-speaking Lutherans and later with English-speaking Presbyterians.

In the late 19th century, the prosperity sparked by new railroad construction enabled all of the congregations to improve their buildings. St. Joseph's was rebuilt in a Gothic Revival style that included a bell made by McShane bell foundry in Glen Burnie, and a tracker action organ. To make the notes sound on a tracker action organ, the organist pressed the key or pedal to open a valve and let air into the pipe. Today, the organ is powered by electricity, a great improvement over the hand pumping previously required to make the air flow—a job that kept young boys busy during services.

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Grace United Church of Christ improved its building in 1890 using Romanesque architecture, a style easily recognized by the round arches above the windows.

(Photo courtesy of Donald L. Unger) "?.our bells have never chimed more sweetly, and our doxologies to the beneficent giver of all blessing have never been sung more heartily?" Rev. W. H. Luchenback, Trinity Lutheran Church-Taneytown Centennial Celebration Address, July 4, 1876.

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St. Joseph's tracker action organ was built in 1804 by Henry Pike England and rebuilt in 1875 by Henry Neimann. Photo courtesy of William T. VanPelt.

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Trinity Lutheran Church has been expanded three times; this photo shows how it looked during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. Its present form reflects the work performed by John Augustus Dempwolf Architectural Firm in 1896. Photo courtesy of the Historic Society of Carroll County.
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HM NumberHM188Z
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Placed ByMaryland State Highway Administration
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Date Added Monday, September 22nd, 2014 at 12:20am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18S E 313135 N 4392124
Decimal Degrees39.65851667, -77.17823333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 39° 39.511', W 77° 10.694'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds39° 39' 30.66" N, 77° 10' 41.64" W
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Area Code(s)410, 301, 443
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 46-82 Frederick St, Taneytown MD 21787, US
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