St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Eagle Lake, Illinois

St. John's Ev. Lutheran Church Eagle Lake

St. John’s Ev. Lutheran Church Eagle Lake RR 2 (Eagle Lake Road), Beecher, IL 60401 Submitted by Karen Rowe The St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Congregation was organized late in 1854 as a daughter congregation of Zion (now Trinity) Lutheran Church of Crete, Illinois. Their first church was located on Bemis Road in Crete Township not far from the Ilinois-Indiana State line. In 1866 the church was moved about 2 miles south to its present location on Eagle Lake Road in the northeast corner of Washington Township, just across the border from Crete Township. The original church building in Washington Township … Read more