Churches
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Union Church, Browns Station
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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
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Reformed Church and Parsonage, Shokan
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First Old Baptist Church
The First Old Baptist Church was built in 1857. The first Minister was Elder Jacob Winchell, Jr.
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Samsonville Methodist Church
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Crispell Grove
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Crispell Grove
Church groups would come to West Shokan to have picnics at Crispell Grove.