AREA HISTORY:  Plainfield Bethel, 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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PLAINFIELD BETHEL – Page 630

Is located on an eminence at the eastern extremity of Fishing Creek Valley.  The 
followers of John Winebrenner had, for a number of years, prospered by increasing 
their number at the encouraging meetings held in “the River Schoolhouse,” near 
Goldsboro.  Some of the members determined to build a church in “the valley,” and in 
1849, Michael Burger deeded to William Kremer, Samuel Kister and Daniel Shelley, a 
plat of ground upon which the church was built the next year.  The congregation that 
worships here belongs to the East York Circuit, and is served by the same ministers 
that preach in Goldsboro.  A Sunday-school has regularly been held in this church, 
superintended of late years by John Nicholas, Howard Nicholas and Henry Fortenbaugh.