CLARK’S CORNERS: A Brief Church History
The church building was originally a one room country schoolhouse of School District no. 6 on land conveyed by Henry N. and Maria Hunt in the year 1885. In 1923 additional land was given by Arthur H. and Bessie N. Waite.
It took three attempts to establish a permanent Christian work in the community of Clark’s Corners. The third try proved to be successful and permanent. Rev. Paul Streib from the Randolph Baptist Church began with a Sunday School in the schoolhouse in 1937 which eventually became Clark’s Corners Community Church.
In January of 1948 the one room schoolhouse was consolidated in the Falconer Central School District. The church continued to meet there and was pastored by several different ministers. The building was put up for sale by public auction on September 18, 1957 and the church bid $2200 and won the purchase thanks to J. Ray Seekins who agreed to hold the mortgage remaining after the church paid all it could-$220-on the day of sale. Many members of the community returned their tax checks from the sale of the school over to the church to help pay the mortgage. God certainly was looking over His work in Clark’s Corners.
Since that time, five different building projects have transformed the one room schoolhouse into a beautiful and accommodating country church. In 1983 the church joined the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference. (www.ccccusa.com)