Snyder’s
Evangelical Church
(aka The Little White Church)
Palmerton, Carbon, Pennsylvania
History of the Little White Church [on “Cemeteries of Carbon County” website].
First church building erected 1844 by a new congregation sympathetic to the views
of the Evangelical Church Association.
Second (and current) church building erected 1853.
Later known as Snyder’s Evangelical Church into the 1930s.
Building later used by other congregations, but mostly vacant.
Building restored by the Lehigh Gap Historical Society in the 1990s.
[Future plans include a possible museum in the church building.]
Map to The Little White Church.
Contact info:
Lehigh Gap Historical Society
PO Box 267
Palmerton PA 18071-0267
Phone: (610) 826-2097
A photo of The Little White Church.
[NOTE: Photos taken August 2004 of the inactive restored church building.]
Photos of Arner gravestones at
The Little White Church:
JONAS5 ARNER, 1819-1893, (son of Jacob4 Arner
& Anna Maria Dreisbach). [gravestone]
JOHN ERWIN7
ARNER, 1867-1867, (son of Lewis6 Arner & Louisa Audra Boyer, and
grandson
of Jonas, above). [gravestone]
The Little White Church (Palmerton, Carbon, PA). Last revision: 12 Oct 2004
The *rner Genealogy Project (Arner,
Erner, Orner, Urner Families in America)
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