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Attachment D
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<br /> ItlSTORY OF BETI:I-ESDA LUTI:I-E, RAN and the Alvadore area. There wasl of course, no
<br /> CItIIRCH Fern Ridge Lake at that t/me. The Elmira
<br /> Highway from Eugene to Elmira,
<br /> passed through the Danebo area.
<br /> Many of the farm homes or out
<br /> buildings still remain: Berntzen,
<br /> Bertelsen, Petersen, Juhl, Larsen,
<br /> Jensen, Lassen, Jessen, Andersen,
<br /> March, Nielsen, Ohlsen. The area has
<br /> always been named "Danebo." The
<br /> Raikoad crossing marker on Danebo
<br /> Street was where the name originated,
<br /> meaning "Borough of Danes.? The_ -
<br /> Bethel area was on the east side of the
<br /> raikoad_tracks near the original:. . :' _ ::.-
<br /> ,. Bethel School. The Danebo:School ·
<br /> was built next door to Bethesda's
<br /> church where the Beltline Road_is
<br /> now. The church and school shared
<br /> Bethesda Church - 1922 the park and playground, and often the
<br /> Dedication of new basement buildings.
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<br /> On December 15, 1900, the Rev. P.L.C. Hansen
<br /> Part 1:1900-1940 read the following fi-om Ephesians 2:19-22: So
<br /> then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but
<br /> In the late 1890% and early 1900%, a determined you are citizens with the saints and also
<br /> group of Danish men and women and their members of the household of God, built upon the
<br /> families immigrated to the rural area just west of foundation of the apostles and prophets, with
<br /> Eugene. Ten families from Iowa and Nebraska Christ Jesus hiraself as the cornerstone. In him
<br /> came first to establish farms at the invitation of th~ whole structure isjoin.~ together a~ grows
<br /> Rev. P.L.C. Hamen, who acquired an ......... option to int~ a holy temple in the Lo-rd; in whom.).~gu also
<br /> buy 1280 acres of farmland at $18 an acre. (Tlhs ara built together spiritually, into a dwe.!t_ing
<br /> sect/on of land was known originally as the pla"..c".efor God. Pastor Hansen said a l~aYer, led
<br /> George Belshaw much and was later owned by the:: ~2 men in singing No. 290 in the Danish
<br /> E.A. Smith, from whom the land was purchased.) hymnbook, and together they confessed the -~
<br /> When the colon/sts began to arrive, they were ApOstles' Creed. In this way the Bethesd~i'_
<br /> sorely disappointed' and critic/zed the pastor Danish Evangelical Lutheran Congregati'_o_-n_was
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<br />· severely-for "luring them to such a dreary, wet established. .-
<br /> place.'' But they stuck on the land, most 0fwhich
<br /> had never been plowed. Most of the good The charter members of Bethesda congregation
<br /> farmland was akeady purchased, so they drained were: Morten Nelson, N.H. Holm, Jens
<br /> the land in the Amazon drainage and by hard, Bertelsen, Marcus Jessen, Knud Henriksen,,
<br /> back-breaking work, they established themselves Peter Julius Hansen, J. C. Christensen, Anton
<br /> and turned the swampy place into a dairy section. Anidsen, Soren Madsen, Niels Johansen, Jens P.
<br /> They converted it for raising dairy cows and Olsen and Henry Petersen. Our old record books
<br /> poultry. The original farms were between the do not list any women, confn-rned teenagers~ or
<br /> West Lawn Cemetery and the present church, children until later.in the next year. There4sno
<br /> and over to Barger drive. Later the farms spread commentor explanations as. to why this was so.
<br /> between the present-day Highway 99, West 11~, On December 30, 1900, the constitution and by-
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