Society. However, advocates of that faith should not be grieved at this - for one of Woolsey's other Churches in the circuit switched from Methodist to Congregationalist.
    The last years of Woolsey were spent in declining health, the results of many years on itinerancy. Several churches which he served have developed separate histories, and some of the churches are no longer served by Methodist Clergy. A brief summary of these churches is given below:

BEACON FALLS UNITED CHURCH

    The first church in Beacon Falls was a Methodist church at Pines Bridge. In this village lived some of the first Methodists in the Naugatuck Valley, in the Nyumph section and at Pines Bridge. Those remembered for their early loyalties to the denomination are Philo Sanford, Moses, David, Adonijah and Miles French; Timothy Johnson and others of his family. Later the Coe family, which had been active at Humphreysville, came to the Pines Bridge society. The first meetings were held in private homes and the ministers were the same as Great Hill and Seymour.
    The first church was located north of Pines Bridge Cemetery, between the present Route 8 and the bridge which spans the Naugatuck River on Route 42. This meeting house was built through the efforts of John Coe and others. It was small and plain and was used until after 1850. The meetings were transferred to another small house on Lebanon Brook, built mainly by the Coe family. This building on South Main Street was first occupied by the Methodists in 1859. In 1871, the church moved to its present site on Wolf Avenue at the edge of a pine grove.
    The building was dedicated January 11, 1872, and cost about $8,000 to construct. The Rome Woolen Company donated the lot on which the church stands and liberally aided in its erection. One of the trustees of the church was John Wolfe, who was the petitioner for the incorporation of the town, and was a leading force in the Home Woolen Company, which was the industrial giant of the community.
    This church remained the only church in town until Beacon Falls was made a mission of St. Augustine's Church of Seymour in 1885. Mass was then said periodically in Beacon Falls by the pastor of that church.