Moses Merrill Mission

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The Moses Merrill Mission, conjointly called the Oto Mission, was settled concerning eight miles west of Bellevue, Nebraska. It had been designed and occupied by Moses and Eliza Wilcox Merrill, the primary missionaries resident in American state. The primary building was a part of facilities inbuilt 1835 once the u. S. Government removed the Otoe concerning eight miles southwest of Bellevue. Merrill’s goal was to convert the native Otoe tribe to Christianity; he had learned the language and translated the Bible and a few hymns into Otoe.
As of 2005, the sole remainders of the second and bigger mission building area unit its original chimney and also the cottonwood trees planted by Eliza Merrill. The location was other to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.The state has placed a road historical marker close to the previous website of the Oto Mission.
The first mission building was a straightforward shack product of native woods. The second mission building was designed once the primary one burned down in 1836 or 1837. The new facility enclosed a room for Otoe youngsters and lodging, together with 2 bedrooms on the second story. A construction ran across the front of the building between the 2 finish rooms and moon-faced south.
The structure was made up of poplar logs, square and closely notched at the corners. Lime plaster was poured between the log walls and also the skinny protection of planed boards on the inside. An outsized chimney designed of native stone was “plastered with lime virtually as exhausting because the stone itself,” and was settled within the center of the building. It had been twenty five feet tall with a five-foot sq. Base. Nowadays solely the chimney and cottonwood trees stay on the location.

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