Скачать или смотреть Rosedale Was Booming When This Methodist Church Was Built in 1908

Learn how Rosedale Methodist Church was one of several churches that popped up to serve workers at the Kansas Rolling Mill. And how the little Wyandotte County town’s rise and fall eventually led to an alliance of Methodists, Mennonites and Disciples of Christ called the Sharing Community in Rosedale.

You might say this house of worship started with a mill.

In the 1870s, the Kansas Rolling Mill brought a wave of workers to the small settlement along Turkey Creek in southern Wyandotte County.

Some were Catholic, and formed the Holy Name Church. Others built Baptist churches, while another group created the Henning Avenue Methodist Church..

In 1908, that congregation merged with the Rosedale Methodist Church and moved into their grand new limestone structure on Southwest Boulevard.

The boulevard, which connected Rosedale to Kansas City, was fast becoming a prime route for Sunday drives in the new age of automobiles.

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