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History of HUMCUnder construction
In 1847, Methodism officially began in Hudson. The Reverend Lemuel Nobles preached the first sermon at Willow River. The Wisconsin Conference from Green Bay sent missionaries to Minnesota and the St. Croix Valley. At first the missionaries visited isolated cabins on the St. Croix but as early as 1848, there is record of a class having been started at Hudson. In 1855, the membership in St. Paul was 70 Methodists, at Marine 22, Stillwater 10, Red Wing 84, Minneapolis 48 and Hudson 50.
The church was built in the summer of 1856 by Ammah Andrews, grandfather of Eddy Ammah Harding of Hudson. The steeple was the tallest in town at that time. In August of 1857, disaster struck ... the steeple was blown over in a windstorm.
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