[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 99 (Wednesday, July 22, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1383]
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                        NUANGOLA CHAPEL HONORED

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                         HON. PAUL E. KANJORSKI

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 22, 1998

  Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate the 100th 
Anniversary of the founding of the Nuangola Chapel in Northeastern 
Pennsylvania. The Chapel will mark its centennial with a service and 
luncheon on Sunday, July 26. I am proud to have been asked to 
participate in this event. Late in the nineteenth century, the newly-
organized Triangle Lake Association built an uncovered platform in a 
grove of trees for the purpose of dances and other social activities. 
On Sundays, the platform was used for services and Sunday School.
  In 1890, Nuangola consisted of only about twenty-four cottages, all 
on the west side of the lake, but it had grown considerably by 1898 
when John Reader proposed building a chapel. A meeting was held at the 
dance platform and a committee was formed to consider the idea.
  In the minutes of that meeting the lake was referred to as 
``Triangular Lake.'' However, there were three other bodies of water in 
the country with that name at that time. To avert confusion, the U.S. 
Postal Service used what was thought to be the original name of the 
lake--Nuangola--after an Indian maiden thought to have drowned there. 
The new committee decided to call itself ``the Nuangola Chapel 
Association.''
  On September 10, 1898, the committee petitioned the court to grant it 
a charter. The petition was granted and recorded for the purpose of 
maintaining ``a chapel for public worship of Almighty God, evangelistic 
but non-sectarian.'' The chapel was built and dedicated in 1904 and it 
has been used every Sunday during the summertime since 1900.
  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to congratulate the fine congregation of the 
Nuangola Chapel on its Centennial Celebration. I send my very best 
wishes on this milestone event for continued prosperity in the years to 
come. I am pleased to have had the opportunity to bring the Nuangola 
Chapel's proud history to the attention of my colleagues.

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