Duke Street Methodist Church Shortly after Completion
1876 Map Showing Duke Street M.E. Opposite York Collegiate Institute
Anyone associated with a non-profit institution knows that fundraising is a continuing necessity. It was the same in the past. York County churches were very good at coming up with new ways to raise cash. In a previous post I wrote about the York Moravians charging ten cents in 1867 to see their illuminated Christmas tree.
Click here to read about the Moravian Christmas tree.
Giving a donation to have your name embroidered on a quilt was also popular. I’ll go into that in a later post.
I recently came across “jug breaking," a new one to me, but it was certainly a hit at the Duke Street Methodist Church in 1877. My recent York Sunday News column relates the details:
