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NEW MONMOUTH CHURCH AND MORRISON'S BIRTHPLACE
This is the site of the first church, built 1746. Just northeast was the birthplace of William McCutchan Morrison, born, 1867, died, 1918. A missionary to the Belgian Congo, he translated the bible into native languages and exposed conditions there. Buried at Luebo, Congo.
Conservation & Development Commission, 1936 |