caption: This early photograph of the Church of the Regeneration cannot now be dated with precision, but it certainly was taken some time after 1861, when the fence in the foreground was erected, and before 1879 when <PERSON>, who has been identified as the individual standing with his hand on one of the fence posts, died. Since the young trees about the church seem well developed, it is probable that the photo was taken in the late 1860s or early 1870s. Note that the main entrance to the church then faced the west instead of the south, as at present, and that the belfry is vacant. It was this old photograph, owned by <PERSON>, from which the cover illustration derives.
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