Lancaster Church

Lancaster Church is a church in Lancaster Township, Jefferson, Indiana. Lancaster Church is situated nearby to the hamlet Middlefork, as well as near Volga.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Eleutherian College.

Eleutherian College

Museum

Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.

Eleutherian College, founded as Eleutherian Institute in 1848, was a school founded by local anti-slavery Baptists at Lancaster in Jefferson County. The institute's name comes from the Greek word eleutheros, meaning "freedom and equality." The school admitted students without regard to ethnicity or gender, including freed and fugitive slaves. Eleutherian College is situated 1 mile east of Lancaster Church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lancaster and Middlefork.

Lancaster

Village

Lancaster is an unincorporated community in Lancaster Township, Jefferson County, Indiana.

Middlefork

Hamlet

Middlefork is an unincorporated community in Lancaster Township, Jefferson County, Indiana. The community took its name from the Middle Fork Creek. Middlefork is situated 3½ miles northeast of Lancaster Church.

Volga

Hamlet

Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.

Volga is an unincorporated community in Smyrna Township, Jefferson County, Indiana. The name's origin is not known with certainty, but is believed to have been adopted from Volga in Russia. Volga is situated 3½ miles south of Lancaster Church.

Lancaster Church

Type: Church
Categories: place of worship and religion
Location: Lancaster Township, Jefferson, Indiana, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.83478° or 38° 50′ 5″ north

Longitude

-85.53135° or 85° 31′ 53″ west

Elevation

761 feet (232 metres)

Open location code

86CPRFM9+WF

OpenStreetMap ID

node 358658143

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=place_of_worship

GeoNames ID

4260149

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