This restored nineteenth-century church is where the final version of George Bennard's hymn "The Old Rugged Cross" was first sung publicly in 1913. The building now operates as a historical site and small museum, preserving the unexpectedly specific Michigan origin story of one of America's best-known Christian hymns.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: the-oldruggedcross.org