Updated: A look at early St. Mark’s history
My story begins with the year that Mrs. W.E. Perkins commemorated 50 years at St. Mark’s 1912; her story actually begins at the end of 1861 when Mrs. Perkins mother, Mrs. Woodford, asked Minnesota Bishop Whipple, while he was visiting his old home in New York state, to visit her daughter, Mrs W.E. Perkins who lived in Central Point, Minn. Indications point to the fact that Central Point was a part of Lake City. St. Mark’s church had not been built at that time but services were held in the Congregational Church. In those days two or three churches of different denominations would gather in the same building to conduct their services.
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