A church bell that’s believed to be one of the first to toll over the village of Crete will find its way home this spring after a deal worked out between the Crete Historical Society and Crete Township officials.
Phyllis Monks and Ryan Martin of the Crete Historical Society stand with the church bell that once tolled over Crete Congregational Church, which was built in 1853. The bell will return this spring to the church, which is planned to become the Crete History Museum.
The church operated in the building for 110 years, with the congregation moving out in 1963 and selling it to private owners. A few businesses operated out of the church building in subsequent years, including Marketplace Antiques, which owned the place in the 1980s when a roofing project necessitated the removal of the old belfry, and with it, the bell.
Then, last year, the reinvigorated Crete Historical Society used some of the funds it had raised decades ago to purchase the shuttered antiques store, an conglomeration of connected structures that combined the old Congregational Church as well as an early train depot. It was time to bring the bell home.
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