Old Brookville Church and Cemetery

Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana

 

Subject:                           Old Brookville Church and Cemetery

Erected by:                  

 Twin Forks Chapter DSDAR 1963
Located: 

10th and John Streets, Brookville, Indiana
Text: 

First Permanent Church in Brookville was built by

Methodists 1820.  It was occupied by Methodists

1821-1839, Presbyterians 1839-1855, Lutherans

1855-1922, Baptists since 1953.  Many Brookville

early settlers are buried in this cemetery including

four Revolutionary Soldiers and a signer of Indiana’s

first Constitution.

 
Subject:                           Old Brick Church

Erected by:                  

 John F. Goodwin about 1965.
Text: 

Purchased by Mary Goodwin Buchanan and John F.

Goodwin direct descendents of Samuel Goodwin,

the “Father of Methodism” in Brookville and given

by them to the Brookville Library Board for

preservation and as a memorial to their Mother,

Martha Goodwin.  Later this church became the

property of the Franklin County Historical Society.