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Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut
 
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    Work on the dam proceeded from 1918 and 1919, and no services were held by the church as the old church had been demolished and the new church was completed in the fall of 1919.
    Services of Worship were held once or twice during each summer by visiting clergy until June 1940, when the Rev. Cyrus W. Severance of Derby became pastor. He was followed by the Rev. Matthew Gates and Rev. Edwin Towle.
    Under the influence of the next clergyman, Rev. Russell Bales, it was voted to join the Methodist conference.


Riverside Methodist Church, Coppermine Road, Oxford.

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ST. THOMAS THE APOSTLE, ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN OXFORD

    The earliest records of Catholic Services in indicate that the Rev. Richard Gragan, pastor of St. Augustine in Seymour, traveled to Oxford to celebrate Mass on an occasional basis in the home of Harriet Frazier on Oxford Road.

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