Methodist
Episcopal - Erie Conference. Organized as a class of 15 by the
Reverend William Burnham Holt in 1887 and first met in a Grange Hall a
short distance down Route 310 from the new site of the church. A few
of the original class were Jacob Raybuck, Elijah Shick, Clayton
Brenholtz and Milton Corbin. The new church was built in 1893 on land
donated by the Allen Family during the pastorate of Reverend Hardman
F. Miller and was known as Newman's Chapel a name which it still
retains. In 1968 this Church was part of the Hazen Charge, which
included Hazen, Allen's Mills, Richardsville, Munderf and Lake City.
The membership in 1968 was 75. In 2002 this church was part of the
Good Shepherd Parish consisting of Allen’s Mills: Newman’s Chapel,
Hazen, Lake City, Munderf: Zion and Richardsville. The Allen Mills
membership on January 1, 2003 was 59.
