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First United Church of Christ in Lowell

Watertown Daily Times, 08 18 2008

First United Church of Christ in Lowell will celebrate its sesquicentennial on Sunday at the church, 710 Watertown Road.

The church was established in 1858 and organized as a German Evangelical Reformed Church when 13 German families moved to Lowell from Regensdorf, Rhenish Province of Germany. The families had a Methodist circuit minister who served the church, but they longed for the traditional services held back home.

Ground was broken for the present church in 1859 under the leadership of the new Reformed pastor Rev. H. A. Winter. In 1910 the name of the church was changed from Regular German Evangelical Reformed Church to Reformed Church in the United States. In 1934, the name was again changed to First Evangelical and Reformed Church of Lowell.

The last name change came in 1957 when the Evangelical and Reformed Churches of the United States united with the Congregational churches to form the United Church of Christ.