1866 - First land bought by congregation

1869 - Congregation organized as "German United Evangelical Salem Congregation"

1870 - First parsonage built

1871 - Sunday School organized

1875 - First cemetery land purchased (Nickel Plate)

1876 - St. John's dissolves with Salem

1879 - First bell purchased

1884 - Present church lot purchased

1885 - First organ purchased

1886 - Second parsonage built

1889 - Ladies' Aid "Frauen Verin" organized

1891 - Present cemetery land purchased

1895 - Red Brick Church built

1906 - Kitchen and dining room addition on west end of church

1906 - First Harvest Festival

1919 - Electric lights installed in sancutary

1923 - Women's Guild "Missionary Society" organized

1927 - Paintings added to front of sanctuary 

1934 - Merger with Reformed Church (now Evangelical and Reformed)

1943 - Fellowship Class organized

1944 - Youth Fellowship organized

1950 - Moller pipe organ installed

1952 - Men's Brotherhood organized

1956 - Harvest Home began again after 30 years

1957 - E & R Church merged to become United Church of Christ

1960 - Memorial Hall addition

1971 - Thur parsonage built

1978 - Christian Education Board organized

1979 - Bell Choir organized

1994 - 125th Anniversary celebration

1995 - 100th Anniversary of Red Brick Church

1995 - Church redecorated

2019 - 150th Anniversary of Salem Congregation

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