Preston Mennonite Church and Fairview Mennonite Home.

This stone and plaque were installed in 1929 to commemorate one hundred years since the establishment of a union meetinghouse and school in 1829. The plaque reads:"On August 8, 1829, local citizens of Waterloo Township selected this site for a community meeting house, school and burial ground, the first school in this vicinity. The land was donated March 15, 1830 by Samuel Bechtel. He and John Baer were appointed builders, Abraham Witmer and John Groh, the first trustees. Tablet placed by the Waterloo Historical Society 1929."

This plaque was erected in 1963 to commemorate the first Mennonite Sunday School in North America, which was established in 1840. The plaque reads: "First Mennonite Sunday School. The first Mennonite Sunday School to be established in America was in Waterloo County, in 1840, in the Wanner and Bechtel, now Preston, meetinghouses. In October, 1941, der Deutsche Kanadier reported, 'The Sunday School started last year and begun anew this year which has been held interchangeably in the Wanner and Bechtel meetinghouses --- is enjoying good progress. The number of children is increasing and amounted to seventy-five last Sunday.' Erected in 1963 by Wanner Mennonite Church and Waterloo County Historical Society."

This plaque was erected in 1963 to commemorate the first Mennonite Sunday School in North America, which was established in 1840. The speaker is J. C. Wenger. The plaque reads: "First Mennonite Sunday School. The first Mennonite Sunday School to be established in America was in Waterloo County, in 1840, in the Wanner and Bechtel, now Preston, meetinghouses. In October, 1941, der Deutsche Kanadier reported, 'The Sunday School started last year and begun anew this year which has been held interchangeably in the Wanner and Bechtel meetinghouses --- is enjoying good progress. The number of children is increasing and amounted to seventy-five last Sunday.' Erected in 1963 by Wanner Mennonite Church and Waterloo County Historical Society."

Historic plaque of first Mennonite Sunday School in North America at the Wanner Mennonite Church in 1840

Photo of close up of plaque was used in the CM 11-46-1. It was placed on the Wanner Mennonite Church, commemorating the first Mennonite SS in America, in Preston (now Cambridge), Ont. In 2nd photo 2 men are standing beside the plaque.

Informal photo taken by the Kitchener-Waterloo Record on the occasion of her 92nd birthday. Used in the CM 12-16-11. She lived in Cambridge (formerly Preston) at the Fairview Mennonite Home.

The Wanner boys club posing for a photo in front of the school bus taking them to a Toronto museum on April 23rd, 1965.

On slide: "Fairview Home Preston" Fairview Mennonite Home in Preston, Ontario (now Cambridge)

Preston Mennonite Church in Cambridge, Ontario. 1966. Hunsberger photo 31-92

Grades 7 and 8 vacation bible school students in 1966 at Maple Grove School

Front view of Preston Mennonite Church in Cambridge, Ontario. 1966. Hunsberger photo 31-93

Fairview Mennonite Home in Preston, Ontario. Copy negative from transparency used for post card. July 5, 1966. Hunsberger photo 32-134

A Thanksgiving display in 1966 set up around the communion table in the sanctuary