Churches · A Town Shaped by Water: 200 Years of the Town of Olive's History

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Union Church, Browns Station

M.E. Church and Parsonage, Shokan

Our early settlers were a religious people. Many of them had braved the ocean and sailed to a strange, unknown land in the hopes of enjoying the freedom to worship that they had never known before.

- "History of the Twon of Olive", by Vera Sickler

Reformed Church and Parsonage, Shokan

First Old Baptist Church

The First Old Baptist Church was built in 1857. The first Minister was Elder Jacob Winchell, Jr.

Samsonville Methodist Church

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Crispell Grove

Church groups would come to West Shokan to have picnics at Crispell Grove.