This cache is placed at BETHANY UNITED CHURCH, SHEDDEN, ONTARIO
The cache is within 12 feet of the sidewalk on the west side of the building. As such there is no need to venture further onto the property and this would be appreciated by the present owners.
Previously recorded histories of this church state that the first church services were held about 1811 in a log barn loaned by Peter Sutton. Following a revival service at which over one hundred people were converted and joined the church, preparations began for the building of a church. Peter Sutton donated a site for this church on the outer south- west corner of the village and a church was erected about 1837 or 1838. It was known as the Methodist Episcopal Church of the London District in the Niagara Conference. Early ministers at this church were Rev. John H. Huston, Dr. James Gardner and Rev. William Myles Fletcher. About 1867 this first church was remodeled and used until a new church on a new site was dedicated about twenty years later. The old church was sold to W.J. Wallis who moved it to his farm. Preparations for the building of the present brick church began about March 1886 with the contract for the new church being let to Powers and Stafford in June 1886. In August of the same year the cornerstone of this new Methodist church was laid by George E. Casey, M. P . The church was decommissioned in 2010. It is now a private residence. Permission has been obtained to place a geocache on the property.
Congratulation to Paddlerkaz for a FTF