Editing Barrington Hills, Illinois (section)

===Barrington Center Church===
[[Image:BCenterChurch.JPG|thumb|left|Barrington Center Church]]
Barrington Center Church was built in 1853 by the [[Barrington United Methodist Church|Barrington Methodist Episcopal Society]].<ref>[http://www.barringtonumc.com/about/history.html History of the Barrington United Methodist Church] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928084506/http://www.barringtonumc.com/about/history.html |date=September 28, 2007 }} accessed March 30, 2007</ref>  A memorial plaque outside the church lists 91 area residents - one woman and 90 men - who served in the Civil War.<ref name="bal1">{{cite web |url=http://www.barringtonarealibrary.org/local/barrington_area_cemeteries |title=Barrington Area Cemeteries|year=2010|publisher=Barrington Area Library|access-date=March 2, 2010}}</ref> Since the 1980s, the church building has been used by a [[Korean-American]] congregation, the New Friends Wesleyan Church.

In 1860, about 18 immigrant families of [[Czechs|Czech]] ancestry settled along the east side of the Fox River, near the future site of [[Fox River Grove, Illinois|Fox River Grove]]. In 1867, land was purchased at the southwest corner of Church and River - Algonquin roads, and construction was started on [[St. John Nepomucene]] Chapel, named after the patron saint of [[Bohemia]]. Completed in 1873, the chapel was never served by its own priest, and currently services are scheduled only once a year. The chapel and its cemetery are owned by the St. John Nepomucene Catholic Cemetery Association, making it the only privately owned Catholic chapel and cemetery in the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockford|Rockford Diocese]].<ref name="bal1"/><ref>[http://observer.rockforddiocese.org/Archives/November22007/CatholicChurchandCemeteryNowPrivatelyOwned/tabid/785/Default.aspx The Observer] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306073519/http://observer.rockforddiocese.org/Archives/November22007/CatholicChurchandCemeteryNowPrivatelyOwned/tabid/785/Default.aspx |date=March 6, 2016 }} accessed December 6, 2007</ref>