AREA HISTORY:  Peach Bottom Churches, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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CHURCHES – Page 766

Delta Methodist Protestant Church – About the time of the incorporation of Delta (1880) a few 
of the members of Mount Nebo Methodist Protestant Church arranged for religious services here, 
and secured preaching at irregular intervals by Rev. Mr. Litzinger, pastor of that 
congregation.  Having purchased a lot from R. S. Parke they, in 1883, under the pastoral care 
of Rev. J. W. Charlton, commenced the erection of a house of worship, which, when fully 
completed, will cost about $3,000.  The building committee were:  Rev. J. W. Charlton, John 
Macomber, J. W. Stanley and James Ritchies.  The trustees are:  John Macomber, J. W. Stanly, 
Daniel Culp, Thomas Holden, Robert M. Moore and E. C. Garrettson.  The present pastor is Rev. 
A. D. Dick, and the membership is 110.  The Sunday-school is under the charge of John Macomber, 
as superintendent, and seven teachers.  The number of pupils in 1884 was 107.


Peach Bottom Baptist Church – This congregation was organized in 1872 in a school house about 
four miles northeast of Delta under the leadership of Rev. John W. Jones.  The congregation 
then elected James W. McCurdy, deacon; L. J. Dodson, church clerk, and Henry J. McCurdy, 
treasurer.  The same church officers are still serving.  Upon the death of Rev. Jones, in 1873, 
Rev. A. W. Eastman became his successor, and served until 1879, when the present pastor, Rev. 
Alfred Wells, was called.  He is also pastor of the Drumore Baptist Church in Lancaster County.  
There are thirty-five members in the Delta congregation.  In 1883 the convenient and 
comfortable frame church was built in the borough of Delta at a cost of $1,800.  The building 
committee were:  Rev. Wells, W. J. McCurdy, L. J. Dodson, H. J. McCurdy and H. A. Johnson.  
After the completion of this new building, the Baptist congregation at Phoenixville, Penn., 
presented the Delta congregation with a pipe-organ, value at $800.  Miss Allie McCurdy is 
organist.