Scope and Contents From the Item: Church Bulletins contain the nearly complete running of weekly bulletins produced by Zion Lutheran Church for the greater part of the 51 year stretch between 1929 and 1979. These bulletins informed the congregation on events and developments at the church as well as religious insturction and messages. Some bulletins also refer to nationally hisotric events such as Pearl Harbor, and the Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations. The scope of this series shows the large changes in style...

Scope and Contents Materials in the collection cover a majority of Athens Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church's 300 year plus history. These are a diverse set of materials incorporating church records, books, historic materials, correspondnece, publications, maps and legal papers. Of particular note are the 113 Glebe Deed documents from the 1780's through the 1820's and other Deeds from 1744 through 1966. There is also a nearly complete run of Church Bulletins from 1929-1974 and 1977-1979 as well as the 1936-1940...