About

Himmel’s Church was organized in 1773 by the first German Lutheran and Reformed settlers along the Schwaben Creek in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania just four years after the Tulpehocken Road had been completed from Reading to the south side of Mahanoy Mountain.  In 1774, a land grant was issued by the state of Pennsylvania and a log school house is still standing about 200 yards north of the present church building.