April 28, 1842 – Missionary Rev. William W. Woods, who came to Iowa City to start a second Presbyterian Church, joins with three other Iowa pastors in Yellow Springs, Iowa to form the Des Moines Presbytery – which is affiliated with the American Home Missionary Society (AHMS).
Just as it is today, dissension and division caused a church divide in the Presbyterian Church of Iowa, and by 1842, there were two Presbyterian churches in Iowa City – one that had a traditional reformed theology (Old School), and the other – a more modern, less formal belief system (New School). Over the next decade, the two churches became known as North Presbyterian (today’s Old Brick – see pic – upper), and – you guessed it – the other (see pic – lower), meeting in a small stone building, became known as South Presbyterian or Stone Church.
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