Lowville United Church

According to the official magazine of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, The Christian Guardian, the first Methodist Church meeting in the Nelson Circuit was held in Collings Church at Lowville on January 13,1833. In 1846, Joseph Colling deeded the Church and one-eighteenth of an acre of land to the Wesleyan Methodist Church for 5 shilllings, to be held in trust by Henry Foster, Thomas Colling, George McCay and Charles Peer. The descendents of these original trustees are still active in Lowville United Church, and descendents of Joseph Colling still reside on property originally owned by him. In 1855, the Collings Church was named ‘Lowville Wesleyan Methodist Church. Thomas Colling chose this parcel of land as the donation from his father Joseph’s estate in 1863, to provide for the building of the larger brick church in 1872. By 1873, services were held in the present brick church, which replaced the original frame building. The church location is shown in the Halton Atlas of 1877.