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New Hackensack Reformed
...on Route 376
Hackensack Reformed
church founded
in 1758
W.APPINGERS FALLS— The
Reformed
received and the choir had
developed from a trio to a four-part
New Hackensack
Church, Route 376, was founded in
choir.
To accommodate the enlarged
175$ when the New Hackensack
congregation of the region's Dutch
Sunday school classes, the chapel
Reformed Church elected to form a
balcony was expanded to a com-
plete second floor by 1953.
church in their area.
With no building available,
Church growth continued
services were held in private
Brin-
creating the need for more space.
By May 1, 1958, the Delmer Cooper
homes until Joris and Ida
Memorial Hall, named in honor of
c k e r h o f f presented the
land for a
the man who pioneered its con -
congregation with
church and cemetery on Nov. 18,
struction, was completed and
1765.
ready for occupancy.
The first church was constructed
A large house located on Route
in 1766 in what is now the cemetery.
376 not far from the church was
The present church was completed
purchased and put into use as the
in 1834 with the parsonage across
new parsonage by 1965.
the street finished in 1840.
In 1968 ground was broken in
The Ellesdie Chapel, constructed
front of this parsonage for a
in 1890 in New Hamburg, was
modern educational building which
donated to the church by Isabel
was completed in 1970.
Satterthwaite. Using $1,000 left to
the church in 1893, the chapel was
The church now consists of ap-
removed from its former site and
proximately 725 members and in
rebuilt beside the church where it
addition to the four-part choir,
housed the Sunday school classes.
boasts five bell choirs.
In 1943 the church membership
was composed of 40 active mem-
Church pastors are the Rev.
bers and 26 Sunday school pupils.
James A. Neeval and the Rev.
By 1956, 378 members had been
Richard H. Weyer.
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